2012 FEAR of the Known
Published: 01.16.12
Anyone who tells you to have a 3-5 year plan set in stone, is completely nuts… Returning to the office after having 3 weeks vacation is a little difficult, yet organizing and strategically planning for the year ahead is somewhat stressing. Being in the event industry for a few years now, I have had many [...]
Disruptive Powerful Story Telling
Published: 11.29.11
Learning to tell stories to disrupt human behaviors is a leadership must for the GREAT. A few days ago I was asked to speak to an outer Melbourne community in Australia that were massively affected by the 2009 bushfires. Hearing some personal stories about what happened early February 2009, where 173 people lost their life [...]
Irresponsible Innovation
Published: 10.29.11
Waiting for good times to return is irresponsible, & focussing on ‘the good old days’ to come back is ignorant. Recently I was talking with a manager of a large retail chain, he said that, “retail is very poor at the moment, but we are weathering the storm as it will return to how it [...]
Crash Through Uncertainty
Published: 10.07.11
Rhino’s can run over 45km an hour (26 miles) but they can only see 9 metres in front of them. So do you know what a group of Rhino’s are called? … a ‘CRASH’! Uncertainty is surrounding us and closing in faster then ever. Rapid change is becoming one of the only catalysts for growth [...]
3 Years of Tough Times
Published: 09.06.11
Through many briefing calls with clients over the past few weeks, I have found a consistent conversation about the tough times over the past 3 years in corporate Australia particularly the finance industry. These conversations are around teams trying to weather the storm and ride it out, and wait for the ‘good times’ to return [...]
Throw Out Your EXCUSE Book
Published: 08.12.11
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else” – Benjamin Franklin The last month I have spoken to over 30 groups of people, from students to corporate, nurses to miners and one thing that is universal is that we all make excuses. Whether it be a personal adversity or bad [...]
