A sine qua non [an indispensable element] of nearly every talk or blog on leadership is the importance of vision. Typically, the author says…
A sine qua non [an indispensable element] of nearly every talk or blog on leadership is the importance of vision. Typically, the author says…
In the mid-1970s, when I was in my early 30s, I had the good fortune to be appointed divisional general manager of a major Australian multin…
Recently in the Sydney Morning Herald careers section there was an article by Jim Bright titled ‘Neuroscience Fiction’. Jim Bright attac…
Recently, British biographer and historian Amanda Foreman addressed more than 700 people at The Sydney Institute’s annual dinner. Her subj…
I learnt a new word last week: ambivert. It was first coined by Kimball Young in 1927 and is defined as a person exhibiting features of an …
Last week there was a worldwide virtual conference on emotional intelligence. Among the speakers was Richard Boyatzis, a co-author with Dani…
Management author Daniel Pink has just written a new book, To Sell Is Human. The Wharton School of Business recently published an interview …
Recently the creditors of Nine Entertainment approved a $3.4 billion recapitalisation that resulted in a $1.9 billion loss by private equity…
After a week in Shanghai, I went to Beijing to launch the Mandarin version of my emotional intelligence selling book, Empathy Selling late l…
For those unfamiliar with the term, CEO disease is the information vacuum around a leader created when people withhold important (and usuall…
I recently read two interesting articles. The first was a summary of survey results produced by Execunet, who asked their members his questi…
In an earlier blog, The emotional intelligence of Don Draper, I noted that there were not many TV series about the corporate world. Another …
