Image Courtesy of Zedge Throughout my career I have been fortunate to experience lots of extreme change and business transformation, both as a team member, but also as a leader. For starters, when I kicked off my career in the Eighties, we had no emails, no internet and no one had mobile phones! Through buyouts, [...]
Tag: leadership
The Boy is Back in Town (Figuratively)
It’s been a while since I’ve posted my musings. The LI algorithm probably doesn’t like me as much as it used to as I haven’t been very active so I’m not sure how many of you this will flash up onto your feed for, but I’ve never written for likes, I’ve always written because I [...]
Leadership – Allowing innovation to thrive is not difficult, but it takes guts!
The word innovation is probably used today more than ever in the history of human kind and in most cases it’s used incorrectly. Scott Berkin famously said that people in business don’t even understand what the word innovation means and that we should replace it with terms with more everyday direct meaning like “We want [...]
To the Misfits!
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you [...]
The Bedrock of Leadership
There are endless books, blogs, vlogs and podcasts on what makes a great leader. Trust me I eat up a lot of what’s out there through my Automobile University. I’m also lucky to have been in leadership roles for many years and I believe there is no substitute for real life experience. Learning from success, [...]
Be The Change!
Two months ago on the 7th August I’d been working for 30 years, wow where did that go, and although we all experience leadership aspects of our technical roles, over the past 15 years I’ve grown into true leadership roles and loved every challenge that has been thrown at me. Some have been really tough and [...]
Leading Ladies
As I experience life, I have a long list of blog subjects that I add to. Gender equality in business has been on that list for a long time but it is a subject that no matter how positive and supportive of the cause you are, it can somehow sound condescending when a man writes [...]
Finding Your Bell!
As I’ve written before in my blogs, and adapting some wise words from Arnold Palmer, “business is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” If your revenue is higher than your costs then you make money, simple. But how do you continue to do this in a world that’s full of competition, whilst improving what you do, [...]
Leadership – The Secret Ingredient
Have you ever worked in a business where you just felt invigorated? Where mundane tasks, which we all have to do at some point in our careers become easier, fun even. When the team bonds, works great together and delivers results beyond expectations. Have you ever wondered what the secret ingredient is that turns a [...]
How do you engage a team that isn’t there!
A few months ago I was fortunate enough to see a talk by Ange Postecoglou, the Socceroo’s Football Manager. In a fascinating talk he spoke about managing Australia’s National team at the world cup and how to get the best from his players through leadership focused on communication and language. There were many insights I [...]
Make One's Mark 