Leadership In Tough Times

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It would be wrong to say that leadership in good times is easy. It’s our actions, though, in tough times, when the chips are down, that may define us as leaders. Where I live in the Hunter area of Australia we have just had a once in a generation severe weather event. Destructive, cyclonic winds, extensive rainfall leading […]

5 Things Great Leaders Do Every Day

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Leadership is a habit, a practice. Great leaders do the same outstanding things over and over, day in day out. Here are five things that great leaders do every day. 1. Think about tomorrow. We get so caught up with what is right in our face that we can forget about the future. Great leaders always […]

ONE THING THAT YOU SHOULD DO WITH THE LESS THAN 0.3% OF 2014 THAT IS LEFT.

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364 days gone, one day of 2014 left. Less than 1% of the year left. It’s not too late to do something really valuable that just might set you up for a great 2015. This is a very powerful reflective exercise that I do with many of my clients who are striving to be the best […]

WHAT GETS MEASURED, GETS MANAGED

I heard this saying years ago. “You can’t manage it if you can’t measure it.” Fundamentally I took it to mean you need to monitor important things so you can tell if actual performance matches expected performance. Most people would agree that we should measure things like sales, safety and quality, but there are other […]