Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Australian swimming review: How an unchecked ‘star’ culture destroys a team
Last week, Australia was faced with the rather unpalatable news that the Australian swimming team, or more specifically certain male members of the team, had been behaving with less-than Olympic standards during the team’s underwhelming performance at the 2012 London Olympics. This revelation came hot on the heels of The Bluestone Review: A review of…
Read MoreDo you have a talent strategy?
It’s an interesting question to ask of any organisation but especially a recruitment agency. To be honest, it’s a question I’ve only given a lot of thought to recently because of the work I have been doing with two of my clients in helping them define their respective talent strategies and the research recently undertaken by Psylutions…
Read MoreWhat’s in an effective leadership program? (and why it matters)
Last week HR Daily wrote up a summary of the research recently undertaken by Psylutions and Curve Group, which has been published as a white paper Best Practice in practice talent management. There was a range of issues to do with talent that were covered in the paper but of particular current interest of me was the commentary around the…
Read MoreVale Stephen Covey: One of the greatest leadership educators of our time
On Monday last week (16 July 2012) Dr. Stephen R. Covey passed away due to the residual effects of a bicycle accident he suffered three month earlier. He was 79. Dr. Covey made teaching principle-centred leadership his life’s work. His most famous work is the international 20 million-selling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. …
Read MoreWhose job are you doing?
Last week I had a conversation with one of my long-time clients. His issue was, in a nutshell, not having time to do his job because he was too busy doing the job of his staff. What does that mean? In his situation this meant: Doing the work of staff who had been recruited but…
Read MoreThe 10 Biggest Culture Killers in Recruitment Companies
This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared in recruitment extra (March 2005 issue). The culture of a company is created, enhanced and also destroyed primarily by the quality of communication (both verbal and non-verbal) that occurs every day in the office. High quality communication is direct, face-to-face,…
Read MoreThe 5 characteristics of highly effective leaders
This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared in Recruitment Extra (October 2006 issue) The number of books on leadership could fill a small library. Leadership books by academics, biographers, motivational speakers, sports stars, military leaders, CEOs, ex-Presidents and the like, are pumped out in their thousands each year. There are…
Read MoreHow CEOs are approaching talent issues in 2012
Earlier last year, global professional services firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, released their 14th Annual Global CEO survey, Growth Reimagined. Across 69 countries, 1201 business leaders responded to a range of questions about issues impacting and expected to impact their business. In response to the question ‘How concerned are you about the following potential economic and…
Read MoreThe Steve Jobs Way: Seven lessons in business leadership
Having spent a couple of days of my holidays reading the Steve Jobs biography I couldn’t help but reflect on the remarkable accomplishments of the man and the lessons applicable for business owners everywhere, big or small. This could have been a very long list, but here are the seven things that are most strongly front…
Read MoreWhat I learned from the US Navy SEALs’ Team Six
Last Monday I watched the documentary Targeting Bin Laden that pieced together the story about the raid by American Navy SEALs which resulted in the assassination of Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan on 1 May this year. It was a compelling piece of television that captured an extraordinary event in a…
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