In uncertain times, teams look for certainty, direction and leadership. They turn to business owners and mangers to create certainty for them and to give them a future direction to be enthused about. In the absence of such certainty and clarity, there is a vacuum waiting to be filled. When a vacuum exists, if the
Have you kept your New Year’s resolutions to stop smoking, lose weight, start a new job/relationship/business? Do you find yourself reneging on your resolutions days or weeks after you make them? Would you like to know what makes resolutions last so that you can achieve them? Below are the five most common reasons why New
“As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name Of The Wind A wonderful jumble and organisation of letters creates a single word. A single word; one that can create power, strength of focus, encapsulate
Last week I was afforded an enormous privilege by way of the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation. That privilege? Meeting former Prime Minister, author, champion of equity, university professor, and perhaps most of all, a person content in their own skin – and owning their own space – Julia Gillard. It was clearly
Embrace diversity, breed new thinking, collaborate, allow the crazy ideas to breathe and create those often insane divergent moments because this is the only way we are ever going to create the future we dream of right here and now before it becomes a present that passes us by. It’s almost as if the repeat
For those of us who are of a particular vintage, there is an iconic scene in the movie Pretty Woman, where a character says these words: ‘Welcome to Hollywood… what’s your dream?’ So many of us have a dream, or a plan for our future reality; a vision of what our lives and businesses should
Anyone who writes for their business understands how amazing it feels when someone comments in a positive way on a blog post, or shares out an article. It’s still wonderful to me after over four years’ worth of weekly blog posts – in other words, approximately two hundred unique posts, just for this platform alone
The world is becoming increasingly competitive – we can see, feel, almost taste it every day in our own business areas and enterprises. We have the experts telling us how volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous the world it is – and hell yeah, it is. The business of busyness is speeding up as we play
Connecting, collaborating, communicating. All great words – but they do require us to use another ‘c’ word – courage. They require us to be brave, to step up and drive change through our influential actions and conversations. It still surprises me how many of us put networking in the box which has been labelled in
5 ways to notice hidden leadership talent I once worked with a leader who turned around his perspective of one of his employees. This employee was skilled but was critical of the leader. When the leader had to find someone to fill in while he left the organisation for several months, he saw something in
