It is not foes that create disruption – it’s the fear of change. When you hear the word ‘fear’ what happens? Do you think it produces a productive emotion, or something to be avoided? Do you wish you had no ‘foes’ and would life be easier? During my keynote...
I think there may have been a bit of a misunderstanding. So I write this blog in part as clarification, and in part to implore Australian businesses to recognise the opportunity that experiences represent. The Big Red Group (the business I co-founded in 2017) has...
THIS CATEGORY IS ALL ABOUT Entrepreneurship I have been on this entrepreneurial journey for more than twenty years. Entrepreneurship So you think you want to be on an entrepreneurship journey? Or perhaps you are just curious about other people who are entprenreneurs....
You’ve probably heard me talk for a while now about influencing others and the difference between leadership, management and role models — and why we need all three. There is a big conversation about the ability of people to influence others and it always comes...
What is the most valuable commodity in the world? I’ll give you a few hints. We all have a finite amount of it. We cannot manufacture, imagine or mine any more of it. There is a limited amount we get to use each day, and each lifetime. It’s time. And if we can agree...
Five marketing rules I live by It’s 20 years since I left my corporate marketing role to start my own show, and while the world of media has changed, the fundamentals have not shifted. Brands are created in the hearts of customers because they ‘feel’ something for...
Mongolia reconnected me to my purpose I’m known for my busyness. People often remark: “I don’t know how you fit everything in”. Always somewhere to go, someone to meet, somehow on a deadline. Yet when Lisa Pagotto asked me to join her on one of her Crooked Compass...
Bringing purpose back to business for FY19 Last week I flew back from an amazingly enriching experience, where I rode horseback for days on end to reach a dwindling community of reindeer herders in remote northern Mongolia. I met local people, slept in an ancient...
