David Dome, General Manager, Phoenix Football Club What’s the most valuable leadership lesson you’ve learned? Let things unravel in their due course. Surround yourself with good people. As long as your hand…
The art and science of great meetings—part one
You’ve called a meeting. Eight people are giving up two hours of their precious time. Do you: Fire off a quick agenda email the evening before the meeting Wing it and make…
Creating an effective senior team
Many senior leadership teams struggle to be cohesive and high performing. While some actively work to lift their game there are thousands and thousands of New Zealand organisations being “led” be dysfunctional…
Embracing failure
Former Tall Blacks coach, Tab Baldwin, made an interesting observation about Kiwis’ relationship to failure. When New Zealanders fail at something, he asserted, we make it mean we are a failure. We…
Reading and watching
Watching The Power of Vulnerability A Ted Talk in which Brené Brown talks about how being vulnerable and open builds self-awareness and connection with others – vital ingredients for authentic leadership. …
Create your own leader user manual
In the New York Times this year, Ivar Kroghrud, CEO of management consulting company QuestBack, tells how his one page user manual helps people get the best from him. Kroghrud developed the…
Leadership lessons from a boat ramp
The late great Nelson Mandela said “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,…
How Picasso can make you a better leader
For centuries, artists have shaped how we see the world and we can learn leadership lessons from them. Pablo Picasso is a great example. Half a century before Apple was encouraging us…
What we’re reading, watching and listening
In this poignant and funny Ted Talk, Brené Brown talks about how being vulnerable and open builds self-awareness and connection with others- vital ingredients for authentic leadership. Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein suggests we should value…
Feedback—why Kiwi “nice” isn’t nice at all
On a recent trip to San Francisco I walked into a made-to-measure clothing shop. It was early trading hours and I don’t think the boss and his assistant knew we were poking…