Posts Tagged ‘success’
Does Donald Trump have the necessary character to be a successful President?
In the past week a number of people asked me when I was going to blog about the President-elect of America. I wasn’t sure what I would say; whether it would be relevant for readers of this weekly missive or whether I even wanted to say anything. I was shocked as (almost) everybody else…
Read MoreLessons in high performance: Usain Bolt “… forever cussing my mistakes”
I have just finished reading the autobiography of six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt (Faster Than Lightning: My Story by Usain Bolt with Matt Allen, HarperSport, 2013). I doubt any readers need an introduction to the 29 year old, Jamaican sprinter however just in case you have been living under a rock these past eight…
Read MoreRCSA 2016 Excellence in Candidate Care Winner: Cox Purtell
At the RCSA Gala Ball on 26 May, Cox Purtell was announced as the winner of the RCSA (Aus) 2016 Excellence in Candidate Care Award. This week Cox Purtell Managing Director, James Purtell, took time out of his day to answer a few of my questions about Cox Purtell’s approach to candidate care. …
Read MoreLessons in success: Do the work; the hard work most others won’t do
I am on Hamilton Island for the 2015 RCSA Conference as I write this. Speaking at the conference will be a person I know very well: Sue-Ellen Watts. Attending the conference, but not speaking (as she has done previously), will be Nicole Underwood, a person I also know very well. Sue-Ellen and Nicole were my first two clients,…
Read MoreHow Mitre 10, campus life and London made the recruiter in me
As my loyal and regular readers would know (both of you), my eldest son secured a job at his local McDonald’s last year. Since then I have observed his progress from Initiator (getting the buns ready) to sometime Cook (now that’s amusing – I’m not confident he could boil an egg at home) over the past eight…
Read MoreLessons in Success: George Calombaris
* This is an updated and edited version of an article originally published in InSight 102 on 7 October, 2009 MasterChef has returned to our screens for a fifth season and is not having quite the same ratings success as the glory years of 2009 and 2010. My interest certainly waned as soon…
Read MoreSir Edmund Hillary – lessons in accomplishment
This is an edited and updated version of an article that originally appeared in InSight Issue #15 on 17 January 2008. Last week marked the 60th anniversary of the first successful summit of Mt. Everest. On 29 May 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (both pictured, above) reached the top of the…
Read MoreHow will I know (if he has succeeded in the job)?
Back in the (Australian) summer of 1985/86 Whitney Houston released the third single from her self-titled debut album. It was a massive hit, reaching number 2 on the Australian singles chart as well as number 1 on the (US) Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song ‘How Will I Know?’ (and accompanying video) were perfect representations of mid 1980s pop music.…
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 MoreMore powerful lessons from The Rare Find: Think through the assignment
After writing last week’s article summarising the lessons from George Anders’s fabulous bookThe Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else (Portfolio/Penguin, 2011), I re-read my favourite chapter of the book and I thought the lessons of that chapter were worthy of further analysis in these pages. I am referring to Chapter 2: The Talent Problem. This is such…
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