Thoughts

A Real-Life Development Story

Recently I hosted a breakfast session where the guest speaker was a well-respected senior leader. He’s regarded as a future CEO and has an impressive track record of delivering results, working across boundaries in gnarly situations, and developing people. And he’s never done any formal leadership training. The focus of his presentation was his own […]

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Out There Book

I’ve just finished my new book “Out There”. My hope is that it inspires people to get ‘out there’ and live a little more. The book combines some short, personal, thought provoking stories with accompanying photos. They all stem from my love of being out there in nature. It’s 22 pages, and it’s $15.00 Cover […]

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The death of the programme?

Last week a client said to me “leadership programmes are dying”. I disagree. Instead, I think they’re morphing. Leadership programmes of old were set-in-stone, prescribed, thou-shalt-follow-this-course style programes. They were created and rolled out in a context of command-and-control style organisational leadership. HR and L&D functions were positioned as the central point from which all […]

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