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...
Leadership In Crisis In 2009, RedBalloon made the BRW fast list for the sixth time – even despite the economic downturn. In the end, it came down to brave strategy and leadership in crisis mode. The team was pretty chuffed. Not a bad effort given that it was all...
Employer Branding does not mean sticking a uniform on your people and having them parade around wearing your logo. It is not about promotional products, or logo’s on trucks. It’s about an authentic, real and open conversation that is created spontaneously...
Thoughts about authentic leadership I was asked to speak recently to an audience about difference between leadership and management, and this led me to consider many aspects of authentic leadership, If you read my blog regularly you will know that I have some very...
I have used this mantra for years – always believing that I was the starting point for my own destiny. A friend recently asked me to ready Napoleon Hill ‘Think and Grow Rich’ and I liked this poem written in the book but there is no reference as to who...
I just attended a keynote from the author of Now Discover your Strengths – Marcus Buckingham. His job in part was to entertain – but he had a strong message, that is the power of positivity. “Build on your strengths and manage around your weaknesses.” If we are...
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...
