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Leadership In Difficult Times

THE WORLD is gripped by an invisible killer and life as we know it is falling apart. In such a time, what we believe about ourselves, our situation, our neighbours, our community and our world will drive our actions and our ability to fight this existential threat — our attitudes and opinions about the world and each other will […]

Going Remote: Manage a distributed workforce to maximise productivity

Right now, many businesses, schools and other organisations are sending workers home to work remotely to slow the spread of COVID-19. Although flexible work arrangements have been around for a while now, we have never seen people working from home on this scale. Our friends at Herrmann International have run their whole business remotely since […]

Abundance Leadership

March 2020 – the world is in the grip of the Carona Virus In a time of crisis we need to remember that an abundance mindset is more helpful This is a time for virtuous leadership Follow the link: Abundance Leadership Final

Growth Mindset V. Fixed Mindset

Every week I come back to this image – it aligns with our m.o. that ‘learning is more important than knowing’ and we ‘operate to learn’ – I hope you find something to take from it too. Dom

Technology is an Assault on Empathy

In this video, Sherry Turkle, author Reclaiming the Conversation, describes our present reality as one where, “we would rather text than talk” https://youtu.be/oeT3s7vts80 Worse still, Turkle has found: 89% of people surveyed took out a smartphone during their most recent interactions with others and of those, 82% said that the quality of their discussion suffered […]

Become a Great Leader

Organisations over-invest in setting strategy and goals and under-invest in defining purpose and the behaviours required to deliver on that purpose – what we call performance signatures And yet these two domains (Purpose and Behaviours) are the foundation of high performance because they create meaning and drive action The key activity of any leader ought […]

11 Stress Busting Tips

See our latest published article – this practical guide is a revived piece from a much longer article which was published in Storm back in 2017 11 Stress-Busting Tips

69 Australian Millionaires Paid No Tax

In 2017, 69 Australians who earned more than $1million, paid no tax; not a cent; they didn’t even pay the Medicare levy. And the number of Australian millionaires paying no tax is growing. Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond says, “capitalism has failed.” This ought to be obvious. Hammond argues capitalism is […]

The Legitimacy of the Australian Military

Martin Luther King Jnr said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter”. Yet it is so easy to stay quiet, to retreat from sticking our necks out for fear of being marginalised or ostracised. But it is not only the big moral imperatives that scare us into […]

Become a Mindful Leader

Recently, we published our Human Centred Approach using the 7 C’s of empathy (curiosity, collaboration, connected, courage, conscious, care and customer centric). To better leverage our Human Centred Approach, leaders need to go deeper within themselves and be mindful – that is, practicing mindfulness from moment to moment. The image here is our expression of […]