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Making 2012 a Better Year
Here are a few ideas for achieving better results in 2012. Focus on What’s Important – This is why New Year’s resolutions frequently fail. People say without much reflection that they are going to get...
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Staff Turnover Hurts More Than You Think
A friend was telling a group of us last weekend that he found out after starting work for a national company that the head office has an annual staff turnover of 56% and that in the few short months he...
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A Key to Leadership and Team Success
I was studying in the U.S. (a long time ago now!) and, being an Australian of European heritage, knew that there was a possibility that I could marry someone from the U.S. or another country, so I...
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Should You Broadcast Around the World to Make Change?
By now, most business people have probably heard of (or read in its entirety) Greg Smith’s op-ed excoriating Goldman Sachs’ culture of – as he asserts – extreme greed and nauseating attitudes towards...
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How Not to Drive High Performance
High performance doesn’t get much higher than Formula 1 racing. These people push their cars, drivers and teams to the limit to win. So you would think, when looking at their team performance, they...
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Is This Management Terrorist Style?
Do these sound like familiar management quotations? Worrying about “recruiting talent”, as “the rise of lower leaders who are not as experienced” would “lead to the repeat of mistakes,”. Leaders of...
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Go Long … Sports and Strategy
Last week, I indulged in one of my favourite annual past-times: The Super Bowl. I love watching the Super Bowl, but don’t usually watch the commercials (couldn’t care less, really). I played Touch...
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When Meteors Fall, Run the Other Way
The meteor strike over Russia was a spectacular and dangerous affair. Nothing was able to warn people about the strike. And the natural reaction to run to the windows or out the door to look at the...
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Fighting Fires
A helicopter helps firefighting efforts at Walyunga National Park. Picture: David Ridgway. Taken from http://www.thewest.com.au My wife and I were returning to our home when we witnessed helicopters...
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The 3Ps of Organisational Success
Long ago, I “invented” the 3 Ps of Organisations: Product, Process and People. I was pleased by this summation of all things business and organisations. Then I encountered six sigma’s 3 P approach to...
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If You’re Serious About Improving Your Leadership and Communication
Here’s a new message regarding the Performance Power-Ups” video series. Subscribe at www.lamplighter.com.au if you’re serious about improving as a leader, a communicator and as a professional. We’re up...
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Stretch
A lot of the strengths-based literature and programs stops at: “utilise your strengths and don’t concentrate on weaknesses”. This leaves people with the impression that all you have to do is work...
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Strategy That Works – Part One
“Strategy” – what a wonderful word. Unfortunately, it gets all too bogged down in protracted semantic debates (“Is that ‘strategy’ or ‘tactics’?”), oxymoronic exercises like “Strategic Planning”, red...
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Meaning From Your Work
Much of my work centres on enhancing and leveraging the meaning that my clients derive from their work – both individually and organisationally. It is too easy in the modern economy to focus on anaemic...
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Strategy that Works – Part Two
Is strategy practicable in the contemporary, 2-years used-by date, technological environment? There are two extremes of strategic business thinking today: One must plan strategy in 1, 5, 10, 20 or even...
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Strategy That Works – Part Three
I’ve worked with a number of CEOs and senior executives who are either refugees from or rebels against government processes. These smart people shudder at the thought of ‘Strategic Planning’ and beat a...
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Strategy That Works – Part Five
Strategic work in organisations needs to recognise the changing business landscape caused by the interaction between our environment, developing technologies, social changes and personal and...
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Strategy That Works – Part Six – The Fallacies of Strategy
Strategy is often inhibited by fallacies in thinking. One of the greatest of these is the either/or fallacy. This informs the mindset that when presented with two apparent options, one must choose one...
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Planning Like You’re Bart Simpson: Lessons from the Ebola Outbreak
I haven’t watched the show for well over a decade, but I remember how Bart Simpson went about checking the possible name abuses for his new baby boy, whom he intended to call Bart. Homer: “What could...
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The Strategy Retreat is a favoured exercise amongst the C-Suite and many organisations. It’s not a ‘Strategic Retreat’, mind you (although sometimes one wonders), but an opportunity to focus on the...
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