What’s Wrong With Being a Benevolent Dictator?

It would be nice if business operated as a democracy where every team member was given an equal vote. Unfortunately the practicalities of this approach would mean that you’d end up drinking lots of coffee, attending endless meetings and …

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Some Things I’ve Learnt About Money, Work & Happiness

I moved to Australia from New Zealand during 2000 in my early twenties.  Until then I’d never had a job that paid a wage.  I had met Grant Thomas, manager of Neil Finn and some big Australian bands, when I organised a Youth Suicide…

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Getting Creative on Complex Problems

For every problem there is a solution. Sometimes the solutions are easy; sometimes not. However you decide to solve a problem make sure that you only have to solve it once. There is nothing worse than a problem that repeats itself every week. …

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Do you understand your talent?

The world under values you. It certainly under values your skills and the expertise you bring to your business. In most cases, your strongest assets are yet to be noticed by your boss. If that’s the case, it may be your fault.

A senior member…

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High Five in New York City.

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We have not posted a video on the site for over a month. We found this through Three Billion a few weeks ago and enojyed it so much we decided to utilise the concept in a recent workshop for a company in Sydney. As a team building exercise, 12 people…

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FROM THE BULL

PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH – I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU!

“We need to do some out of the box thinking from the get-go with sufficient granularity in the drill-down phase to ensure our value-added strategy is consistent with our core values …

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Ask yourself the tough questions.

Are you asking the hard questions? Have you overlooked a simple important factor of making a business successful.

The sound of a dripping tap. You know the one, late at night when all is quiet. Drip. Drip. Drip. It is an annoying isn’t…

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Gen-Y: Part 1

I do not reference  the link between this blog and my company and I don’t want to start now. However, I will reference one of the brand ambassadors we have working for us.

He is a 23 year old DJ from Sydney who recently landed himself a new …

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FROM THE BULL: Bond

My word is my bond. It’s a powerful sentiment, isn’t it?

How many meetings or conversations have you been in when someone is trying to convince you how fair, reasonable, sincere and committed they are? This is probably after they have failed…

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Red Bull marketing

When we think about the brand Red Bull, we think of more than just product. The brand is a great success story with strong ties to community, events and youth relevance and widely regarded as one of the best youth marketers in the world today.Here…

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Reactive bites.

How do you turn up to interviews? Sales meetings? Board meetings?

Do you sit where you think you are expected to sit? Does your conversation follow a call sheet? Do you wear exactly what you are supposed to wear and answer questions safely? This…

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FROM MAX: War games.

In a recent workshop, we were struggling to convince a number of stakeholders to make some relatively tough yet really obvious decisions. It seemed simple enough, we had clearly articulated the current position, the strategy and the financial…

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Creating more than we capture

Its tiring reading the paper and hearing about the world in crises. Lets do something to change the mood. I was asked on Monday how I manage to squeeze so much into such little time. It came as a surprise to me as I feel the need to continue to do more…

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Teams… Do they really work?

Teamwork.

Working in teams has certainly been around a lot longer than me. I am for the record a huge believer in “team work”, just not necessarily, “teams” for the sake of creating them. Sure a team can foster creativity,…

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