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Public Sector Leadership in Quiet Times: Readiness
I wrote a Wednesday Wisdom last week, that I had to do an emergency withdrawal for on Tuesday night, after the Prime Minister’s COVID announcement. I...
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I wrote a Wednesday Wisdom last week, that I had to do an emergency withdrawal for on Tuesday night, after the Prime Minister’s COVID announcement. I...
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It’s been a hell of a few months. We’ve had to adapt fast as the world has gone mad. For many of us, it hasn’t been all bad. COVID has provided the...
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When COVID hit, many of us experienced – and are still experiencing – serious financial uncertainty. Businesses lost revenue, people lost jobs, and...
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I’m off the grid this week, holed up in an adorable little cabin in Martinborough, finishing up my second book, From Action to Impact: The Strategic...
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Goals motivate us When I started running, I could only motivate myself to train if I had an event coming up. I started at a 5K, and a few years...
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If I looked at your calendar for the week – could I tell what really matters to you? If I looked at your team and decision process - could I tell...
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My middle child is a bit of a sage. Since she was little, she’s habitually said profound things that make you look at her sideways. In the way that...
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The last couple of months have triggered a shift in our understanding of the world. World wars, the digital revolution, 9/11 and the GFC are other...
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Do what you’ve always done, and you’ll get what you’ve always got. Think about changing your systems and mindset.
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Early last year, I visited the M.C. Escher exhibit in Melbourne and enjoyed having my mind blown by some of the mind-bending perspective pieces on...
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I’m a sucker for a fresh start. I’m excited to start a new notebook, let alone a new year. This time, we’ve got a new decade, for goodness sake......
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Marie Kondo, in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, suggests getting rid of everything in our lives that doesn’t ‘spark joy’. Clearing clutter...
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I invest in professional development for three days every three months and head off to business school in Australia. Those three days are always the...
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Eating well sucks. I’m currently in training season for a marathon and doing my best to put the right fuel in for long Sunday Rundays. I’m also on a...
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Firefighters have a demanding job. On the one hand, they do everything we expect in a crisis, like turning up and fighting a roaring blaze. Behind...
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Have you ever opened your calendar, only to see nothing but other people’s priorities staring back at you? Take a look at it now and see what the...
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Remember Pokemon Go? What a sensation! Blowing up from what felt like nowhere, Pokemon Go was the third most popular app download in 2016, behind...
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With parenting, it’s what we do that counts, not what we say. When my two eldest girls reached 7 and 11, I decided to institute a more formal...
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Last week, I wrote about how to get people interested in your strategy and change initiatives and the importance of being real and using plain...
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Every time I walk into a workshop with a new group, I have a job to get out of the way: establish credibility and generate interest. Is this partly...
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I ran a Strategic Focus workshop with a group last month, and one of the participants alerted me to the most beautiful quote: “The past is a foreign...