Book Review: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh; Harvard Business Review Press, 2014 “A business without loyalty is a business without long-term thinking. A business without long-term
What your business is experiencing is normal… mostly.
Like relationships, no one really goes into business expecting it to fail. Yet, more than half of all businesses don’t survive beyond five years1. As a business owner you want to
Inside the mind of an executive coach: Can you trust the process?
To succeed in attracting, managing, and retaining high-impact talent, research shows that coaching is the number one process businesses should focus on1. With retention and engagem
Book Review: GROW by Jim Stengel
“The better you understand the people who are most important to your business’s future, the more you can stand for something fundamentally important in their eyes and the close
Leading from the inside out: Why better people make better leaders
In his book Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life, James Kerr examines what makes the All Blacks one of the most successful teams in the history of sp
What is leadership capacity and how do I get more of it?
In a study of CEO’s leading multibillion dollar companies, Harvard Business Review1 sought clarity on how CEO’s use their time and how to maximise it. They concluded that the j
Is your hard work giving you or costing you what you really want?
The demands of building a business, managing a team, leading an organization, running a family, or just having time for yourself are constant. There are always goals to set, plans
The short-term fix that can create a long-term problem
Stress and fatigue are understandable at certain times of the year – think of the mad rush in anticipation of the holidays, or the lead up to rolling out a major change initiativ
The subtle way your childhood affects how you lead
We all enter adulthood with thought processes and behaviours learned and adopted from childhood. This is true of every person, whether in a leadership role or not. Children learn a
Is your personal brand trustworthy?
As we step into 2022, whether boldly or with some reservations, there is a degree of uncertainty about how this year will unfold. Over the holiday break you may have paused to refl