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Leadership

October, 2022

How to lead like William Wallace

Since the day I watched the movie Braveheart, I have never looked at leadership the same way. It was such a revelation, in its own way. You see, I probably don’t watch movies like most people d Read More

October, 2022

How to develop your relationship with failure

During 2002, I was in charge of the maintenance of an industrial plant that was part of a smelter in New South Wales. It was 3pm on a Friday afternoon. I had done some calculations to determine h Read More

October, 2022

How to avoid group think and why you should

On 28 January 1986, NASA made the decision to launch The Challenger.  That decision resulted in what is called to this day, ‘the Challenger disaster.’  What was the Challenger Read More

September, 2022

How to have a real conversation with your leadership coach

Recently, I got an email from a coaching client, who expressed how grateful they were that we had ‘a real conversation’. It was my first session with this client, and it was great feedback to Read More

September, 2022

How to empower others like Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page was born on 26 March 1973, in Lansing, Michigan, USA. Larry Page had an unusual beginning. His parents were both professors in the field of computing. Dr Carl Victor Page, La Read More

September, 2022

When leadership matters the most

On August 5, 2010, a mine cave-in trapped 33 miners 700 metres underground.   It would take 17 days for rescuers to establish communications with the trapped workers (with a note taped Read More

September, 2022

How to be a conscious leader and why

As a leader coach, I hear the words ‘old school’ leader and ‘new age leader’, regularly. I coach a mix of both types of leaders, and if I was to describe the difference between the two, i Read More

September, 2022

What can we learn from our leaders?

One of my takes on leadership is that we don’t spend enough time reflecting on the leaders that we have had in the past (or present) and learning from them. We have all had (or have) outstandin Read More

September, 2022

The 5 things leaders never want to hear from their teams

I have had some great leaders. One of my favourite leaders of all time is a personal called Pat (let’s use that name – it happens to be their real name ?). Pat was the human that shared with Read More

September, 2022

What I learnt in 500 leadership coaching sessions

In January 2020, just before the pandemic whipped up its frenzy, Facebook started sending me ads for a thing called Remarkable. The metaverse must have been listening to my conversations (or Read More