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2022Authentic leadership can’t be taught
When it comes to leadership the only thing that matters is sincerity-once you can fake that you can do anything. As ridiculous as this old business punchline sounds, it is the basis of leadership programs around the world. We are in the age of “authentic leadership” at a time where experts tell us leaders need to be: • Self aware with clearly identified values and…
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2022Growing up is an exciting adventure
Leadership we are told is about getting things done through other people. Leaders either stand out the front to inspire and direct, or they lead from behind lighting fires within their people and using consensus and group dynamics to get people to take responsibility for themselves, their growth, their actions and their outcomes. Clever leaders are able to do both. Most of us prefer to…
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2022‘Staying sane in a changing world’ -my book available now
Available now- check out the link to your right My Books & eBooks. eBook & softcover available. There’s no doubt that the world is experiencing rapid change: technological advances and globalisation are completely transforming the way we live, including the way we work, communicate and play. We can no longer expect life to be how it was in the past. Consequently, we need to upgrade…
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2022Learning to operate functionally
A reader recently asked me to write more on the Old Brain. That part of our brain (often referred to as the reptilian brain) that dominates our thinking when we feel under threat. Whenever our thalamus computes that any situation is inauthentic, unsafe or unfamiliar-we are genetically programmed to react from our Old Brain. Old Brain is all about survival. It is the centre of…
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2022Walking the path of integrity
Are you drowning or waving? In Australia we have bush fires, heat waves, floods and cyclones. In North America and Europe there are typhoons, snow storms and big freezes. In South America and Asia there are severe floods, devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. In the Middle east we have riots and civil unrest. In Africa we have epidemics of AIDS, poverty and famine. All over the…
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2022My Books and eBooks available
Hello to everyone that is following my blog, thank you for your support. I would like to introduce my books available through this site Approaching the corporate heart, Staying sane in a changing world and Peaceful chaos. I truly hope you enjoy them as you do my blogs. Margothttp://margotcairnes.org/my-ebooks-now-available/
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2022
Smiling in the Face of Terrorism
Have you renewed your passport or driver’s licence recently? If so, you will probably know that we are no longer allowed to smile in our photos. How sad! When I got my new licence I was dismayed by the sad sack image glaring back at me. I had images of historians in centuries to come – unearthing a cache of 21st Century documents and deciding…
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2022Managers must manage their bosses well
A key role of a managing director is managing his or her board. A well-managed board can be a great source of support, expertise and different perspective. A badly managed board can consume large amounts of management time, delay the making of strategic decisions and even lead to the removal of management altogether. It is in the best interests of the whole leadership team to…
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2022The challenge of reinventing ourselves
As our world gets smaller and as the balance of power shifts from Europe and the US to India and China we find ourselves needing to learn and accept more about our cultures that might seem foreign to our own. Culture is such a subtle and unique thing. What is acceptable in one culture can be insulting in another. I have been advised in Asia…
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2022Don’t dismiss radical view of capitalism
Eisenstein in his book Sacred Capitalism argues that, because we have an economic system based on money, our labour, relationships, emotions and even our spirits have become commoditised. For example, he suggests that if we as members of a community engage in a working bee for the local school, we value each other and the gifts of time and effort we offer. However, if we…