‘Passion is the Number 1 Business Development Tool’, says my friend Jesper Lowgren, author of On Purpose – the path to extraordinary business transformation. Passion is what drives engagement (both internally and externally) and leads to simplification through asking the
Passion and Flow: How to make the most of your greatest asset – People!
I’m running an event in Melbourne on 12 August at 6.30pm. You can find the details here. But first some background: Like it or not, we live in revolutionary times. Everywhere I go I find conversations about working in a
Fool-proof employee driven engagement
My colleague and friend, Ian Berry, creator of the Enhancing Their Gifts System, has produced a White Paper on Fool-proof employee driven engagement. It is 12 pages of passion and sound advice drawn from Ian’s 20 years experience in this
Keys to high performing teams part 2 – Crystal clarity on roles and responsibilities
This is the second in a series of posts exploring 10 keys to getting high performing teams. This one looks at the second key: getting crystal clarity on responsibilities and what is expected. I’m a keen amateur photographer and I
Keys to high performing teams part 1 – have the right people in the right roles
This is the first of a promised series of posts exploring 10 keys to getting high performing teams. This one looks at having the right people in the right jobs. A key part of this comes at the recruiting stage.
From Best Practice to Best People
The Harvard Business Review blog has an interesting article Which Best Practice is Killing Your Business? which starts with the example of how the “quality” newspapers in Britain hung onto the impractical “broadsheet” format for years without realizing that it was