Your Team Needs Your Best Self, Not Your True Self. Let’s talk leadership authenticity – that buzzword plastered across so many HR blogs and management seminars. Be yourself! Lead with transparency! It’s…
Summit Wrong in Leadership
Leadership can be tricky. It can be hard. Doing the right thing is not always the popular thing. But nice guys do sometimes finish first, even when they should finish last. I…
A Leadership Call to All Kiwis
It seems no workplace in New Zealand is exempt from poor behaviour – not even our Parliament, which in the words of Jacinda Adern, should be an exemplar of a safe workplace.…
Choosing to be great
Jim Collins has written some of the most influential books on leadership and organisational culture – Built to Last and Good to Great. Catapult’s John Boyd provides a synopsis of his new book, Great by Choice.…
Positive Defiance
Being Movember, I was inspired to get my two-yearly health check. The doctor, beginning with small talk, asked what I did. I told him I worked in leadership development. At this point…
Leadership character
In Catapult’s soon to be released new 360-degree feedback tool, one of the five components of leadership assessed is character. In our exploration of leadership character we came across the work of…