Are you frustrated by not attracting enough career or business opportunities? Would you like to know how to stand out from others and get a leadership edge? The best way to gain a leadership edge over your competition is to do something different, and compete on things that are more difficult for your competition to
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
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
Let’s face it, we all suffer from stress at one point in our life, in fact, many of us feel stressed on a daily (or even hourly!) basis. However, the good news is that we can learn to manage our stress, before it manages us! Within this article, I would like to share with you
After 17 years in state politics, former Queensland premier Anna Bligh knows all too well that when you get back up after being knocked down, there will be someone or something ready to knock you down again. The third female premier in Australia and the first to take the position in Queensland, Bligh fought and
