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You Make a Difference: Showing Appreciation to Staff

Posted in Leadership, tagged , , , on January 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Showing your appreciation to staff and saying ‘you make a difference’ will benefit you a great deal more than just a financial bonus at the end of the year. There are many ways to show appreciation, and each will be accepted and rewarded with an improvement in moral and motivation.

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13 Tips for implementing change in your organisation

Posted in Leadership, Uncategorized on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Keep in mind these 13 tips when implementing a new initiative in your organisation: Keep the workshops positive and fun. Tweet this! Remember the scientific method. – Plan an idea, test and measure the idea, make adjustments accordingly and roll out more broadly. Tweet this! Avoid paralysis by analysis. – Learn lessons from direct experience [...]

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Leadership in meetings

Posted in Leadership, Management, Success Factors on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tom Peters gives some great advice to Leaders: LEADING Through Meetings Find me a boss (or non-boss) who doesn’t constantly bitch about “too damn many meetings”—I’ve never found one. But here is the irreducible fact of “boss-world”: Meetings are what bosses do. There is no escape. And if that is true, then, also by definition, [...]

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Leadership as a contact sport

Posted in Leadership, tagged , , , on April 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

IN AN article by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan, which analysed eight different leadership development programs, came up with an overarching conclusion about the behavioural traits of exceptional leaders: personal contact is the most important factor out of them all. This was measured by the frequency and of discussions and follow up with co-workers, and [...]

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Hiring great people

Posted in Leadership, tagged , , , , on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

WARREN BUFFETT doesn’t have meetings with his managers unless they want to. Warren hires great people so he doesn’t have to manage them – they manage themselves. Think about your own experience, when had great people working for you, did you need to follow them up and ‘manage’ them. Probably not. This does not mean [...]

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Leadership: Former Telco boss on Integrity, Diversity and Decision-making

Posted in Leadership, tagged , , , , , , on December 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »

THE CEO Forum latest issue has an interesting interview with former New Zealand Telecom CEO (1997 to 2007), Theresa Gattung. Answering directly, making some interesting points about leadership and running big business: Leadership characteristics “The most important thing is integrity.” Gattung says, when asked about the most important attributes leaders must have. Second to integrity [...]

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Acknowledge your staff – or lose them

Posted in Leadership, tagged , , , on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »

One of the most viewed posts on this blog is Top Ten Ways to Show Appreciation to Staff, and today I received yet another reminder about how important it is to acknowledge your staff and who you work with. A person I worked with on a previous consulting assignment has decided to move on because she [...]

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How CEO’s think

Posted in Leadership, Self Management, tagged , , on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I just had a 10 minute chat with the CEO of  a major bank here in Australia – top 20 in market capitilization in the world – I asked him a few questions and I thought I would share his answers. On reading: He doesn’t read business books, as he finds them boring and repetitive. What does [...]

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Lessons from the best

Posted in Leadership, Management, tagged , , on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I came across this email today from someone I trust: Finally, I thought I would share some advice and words of wisdom that I received recently from one of Australia’s leading and most experienced business leaders. The biggest lesson in business is that you never stop learning. Always be open to new ideas, to new [...]

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Bromides: listening

Posted in Leadership on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The common advice to listen more, while axiomatic is a bromide. If everyone was to do as the advice givers ask, who would be doing the talking? What people need to learn is judgement. When to listen, when to talk, how to ‘listen’ between the lines and to peoples body language. For example, assessing people’s [...]

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