This weekend we honoured ANZAC Day. While we had to remain physically distant, there was an element of connectedness by coming together in spirit to remember, thank and salute our fallen heroes. We were lucky enough to experience a child playing The Last Post on our street, which was a beautiful way to commemorate Australia […]
leadership
Leading Your Team Through Uncertain Times: Some Ideas From Us
To pivot: The action of turning around a point. If this is not the most used description of what we are all having to do at the moment, I don’t know what is… oh.. other than unprecedented! That gets a good– run too. As with many of you, our team is working through the transition […]
If You’re Doing Things Without Passion, You’re Wasting Your Time
My phone rings at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday from an unknown number. Telemarketers, I think to myself. But I’d recently seen my GP. What if she was calling to tell me my google diagnosis of leprosy, with 2-3 days to live was correct? I immediately stop everything I’m doing, which is aimlessly scrolling through photos […]
Resilience: Nothing Happens Until You Burn the Boats
My last article surrounded R U OK Day, and explored the idea of personal resilience. This week I want to discuss how we can build organisational resilience– in other words, “Burn the Boats”. This idea stems from military history, surrounding the concept of moving forward and not retreating. There’s an old story from 1519, where Spanish […]
The Smartest Way To Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
EI, now, don’t confuse this with AI (Artificial Intelligence). OK Google, you can stop reading this and storing my useless-data in a cloud somewhere. Although, if you are looking at my web-browser history, I apologise for asking if Africa was a country *insert blonde emoji*. EI stands for Emotional Intelligence. The dictionary defines EI as, […]
We Shouldn’t Be Ashamed Of Our Business Failures– We Should Talk About Them
It started with two people. The year was 2007, Cameron still had hair, and Griz had bangs– and they also had a business idea. They were worlds apart in personalities and hairstyles, so, what did this unlikely pair have in common? They had a vision. Their vision was to create a premium consulting agency in […]
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