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Leadership

NO is not an answer.

There are dozens of excuses not to innovate, and we’ve heard ‘em all. Most are ‘knee-jerk’ emotional reactions to change, […]

A Christmas Story.

She was invisible; a tiny child in a gigantic city. She was alone; her mother had vanished, swallowed up by […]

What do you really need in a leader?

What would it take for you to stop whatever you’re doing and follow someone, no matter where they were going? […]

You’re new here aren’t you?

Do you remember when you first started at your new job? Remember, you were full of ideas, saw all the […]

Join in.

Volunteers are thin on the ground. We hear this at just about every community get together and every government conference […]

Who da boss?

With so much talk about leadership these days, it’s amazing that almost no-one has bothered to define what the hell […]

The day my mind exploded.

I saw it on a fuzzy black and white television from across a crowded primary school assembly hall. I knew […]

Thoughts on leadership

I once worked in an organisation where the boss was the scariest man around, his “jokes” were like grenades and […]

One step back, two steps up.

Imagine a typical organisational hierarchy. A boss is harassing the department head who’s bugging the manager who’s checking on the […]