Leadership is not a set of characteristics to possess- it’s a relationship

Dec 09

Leadership is not a set of characteristics to possess- it’s a relationship

Goffee and Jones say that the main body of literature on Leadership talks about the characteristics of leaders and that is gives it a strong psychological bias. I’m sure we can all think of a few, and we may have also been witness to discussions on whether a person can learn to be a leader or whether they are simply born a leader. However, have you ever considered...

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Could your organisational structure be creating lemmings?

Dec 08

Could your organisational structure be creating lemmings?

It’s been pretty busy in life lately. New job, new house and it is almost Christmas. This year has flown! I have also been spending my free time reading an excellent book called “Why should anyone be led by you?” by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. My organisation is going to be doing a lot of cool things in the Authentic Leadership space next year so I thought I...

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You work with adults… treat them like adults

Mar 09

Another fantastic piece of work from Chris Ferdinandi in the United States- I just had to share this. Subscribe to his blog today for fresh ideas about HR. Rebranding HR View more presentations from Chris...

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Hot off the Press! Understanding the behaviour and intention of executives in Australia

Mar 08

Hot off the Press! Understanding the behaviour and intention of executives in Australia

In case you haven’t heard of Destination Talent by Phillip Tusing, it’s a blog which professes to cover “Musings, riffs, rants and insights on everything talent”. Phillip is an experienced Australian Recruiter, but has worked in a number of different roles over the last nine year including analyst and marketing manager. Currently he consults...

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