Recently I was sent a blog post about conscientiousness entitled This is the personality trait that most often predicts success. The author,…
Recently I was sent a blog post about conscientiousness entitled This is the personality trait that most often predicts success. The author,…
There is an interesting discussion going on in a LinkedIn group called Entrepreneurs & SMEs, which can be found under the Small Business…
While reading the latest edition of Company Director I came across a new phrase – practical wisdom. When organisations want to improve per…
There was an interesting article by Sarina Russo in the Weekend Australian (25/1/14) Extra sense that gives women an edge where she argues t…
Recently, I was alerted to a post by Wharton professor and author Adam Grant – it had appeared on LinkedIn and was about the power of expr…
When I did my MBA in the early 1970s, one of the constant mantras from the organisational behaviour lecturers was that the carrot was more i…
A few weeks ago I attended (along with about 1000 others) a talk by the chief operating officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg. Previously a C…
Earlier this year I was at the London Business School attending a reunion. Among the various speakers was Nigel Nicholson, the not so young …
In a recent article in The Australian (August 21), Janet Albrechtsen suggested that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may be a corporate psychopath….
I have just finished listening to the MOOC series Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence by Richard Boyatzis. While I did not a…
In my workshops on Lifting Your Emotional Intelligence, I spend a certain amount of time on how to recognise and deal with corporate psychop…
Making decisions is a critical part of every executive’s job. One of the things you learn as you climb the corporate ladder is that you an…
