How To Be A Breakthrough Company I’m just back from a holiday break with the family. It was great to rest and rejuvenate… to take in a few experiences too. Jet Ski Ocean Adventure – I’d never been on a jet ski before – the kids loved it! Also had fantastic fun...
How To Find Inspiration Facing a blank page, a lack of creativity and a deadline for a blog, I always ask myself how to find inspiration. This leads to the following questions: “What is going on for me right now? Is it interesting for anyone else? What am I...
Andrew May poses the question ‘What does the perfect week look like?’ Is it an 8 day week? If you had an extra day what would you do with it? Apparently, 63% of Australian workers are sleep deprived. It is much harder to be productive, let alone enjoy what we do if we...
Female Leaders Presenting to 150 fifteen-year-old girls is probably one of the tougher gigs that I have had. Not helped by the fact that my daughter said, just before I left home, “Don’t be embarrassing – they really aren’t interested at...
Management Revolution I received the email below yesterday, just after RedBalloon for Corporate hosted a Webinar on Employee Engagement for 250 people. I didn’t receive the email until after the event. But I assume that this person was commenting on the session...
Is there an entrepreneur gene? The whole concept of Entrepreneurship is interesting but are they born or are they created? The entrepreneur gene as it were. Why does one person risk it all to do something differently – whilst another dream but never acts, and...
Rod Beckstrom has founded, grown and successfully exited several businesses. But he is a curious sort of a guy…he wanted to know about the unstoppable power of leaderless organisations. So together with Ori Brafman, he set about researching those organisations...
Meeting Malcolm Gladwell in person Was quite a different experience to hearing him on stage. Quietly spoken, intense and clearly not so comfortable with endlessly meeting people. He was more like an academic than a journalist. Perhaps he is an academic but what...