Barry Schwartz’s talk at the AHRI National Convention ‘The Loss of Wisdom’ is all about finding an anecdote to the excesses of bureaucracy amongst other things. Barry argues that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire and that real practical everyday wisdom will help you rebuild our world. Barry Swartz is a Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore...

In continuing on from problems that smart, successful people have, Marshall Goldmith talked about adding too much value as a leader recently at the AHRI National Convention. He said “I’m young and smart and enthusiastic and I come to you with an idea. You think it’s a great idea. Rather than just saying ‘great idea’, our natural tendency is to say...

Again, testing out my Flip Video camera and video editing skillz. I think I’m getting better but I hope you get the gist of how much fun the AHRI National Convention was. A special shout out goes to my friends from CSIRO who welcomed me onto their table and showed me a crazy, fun time. For the record- we did not start the conga line either. In case you are...

Apologies that my notes from the Seminar has taken some time, but I promise my in-depth notes on a few of the speakers will be headed your way this week. To get things started, here are my notes from the bestselling author and world-reknowned thought leader in leadership development, coaching and human resources, Marshall Goldsmith. NB. He spoke for a quite a while...

That’s ok there are a few ways you can keep in the loop. You can search twitter to monitor the back channel about what people are saying. Just head to Twitter search and type in the hashtag for the event which is #AHRINC You can then follow some of the people and see what they are saying. For example: @AHRIevents @mspecht or follow me and I’ll try and...