A note to young leaders. Power is a reality distortion field. The greater the power, the greater the distortion. Power allows you to define your own reality. Your jokes become funnier, your mistakes smaller and fewer, your calls more prescient. If you’re not careful, you can begin to inhabit a world entirely of your own […]
If the majority of your key relationships are people you’ve met in the past five years, this tells me two things about you. You’re very ambitious. And … there’s something about your past (yourself) you’re not entirely comfortable with. Relationships really matter – and long-term relationships matter most. […]
Another lesson from the late great John Caldon, former Deputy MD of Macquarie Group. In the mid 1980’s, Rothwells was a merchant bank decidedly on the rise. Laurie Connell, Rothwell’s then Chair, actively courted John and offered him the CEO role. John summarised the meeting this way: “I was picked up at the airport in […]
To young leaders. With mask-wearing now mandatory in Sydney offices, many businesses are understandably back in WFH mode. The good news is we’ve been here before, so we ought to be equal to the challenge. The bad news is many will struggle to re-establish the physical, mental and spiritual routines that have served them well […]
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The real battle is always between the twinkle in your eyes and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Don’t join the ranks of the cynics, theirs is the dead stare of a million adults. Keep twinkling. 😊✨ […]
If you could be a world champion athlete; a rock star or a Nobel Prize winner – which would you choose? This is the question the late, great John R. Caldon once posed to me over a lunch some 10-years ago. I chose Nobel Prize winner. John smiled knowingly and asked why. “Don’t get me […]
Here’s why honouring your word is so important. Victory requires persistence. And persistence requires resilience. And resilience requires positive self-talk. Positive self-talk is not possible without self-esteem. And there can be no self-esteem unless you honour your word. […]
There are two types of people in the world: those who divide people into two types and those who don’t. 😊 When it comes to Covid policy, I find myself in the ranks of the former. Covid policy is a highly divisive issue. It’s an issue about which reasonable people may differ. There are lots […]
Recently, an EG colleague and a good friend of mine contacted me to let me know that he and his wife had contracted Covid and were in the throes of its symptoms. Far from complaining, he made this telling observation: “The number of people who’ve reached out to us to offer their help has been […]