Mountaineer reaches the top of mountain.

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The Street Aesthetic of New York City

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Australia could project-manage its way to world leadership

I reflected recently on my attendance at an executive retreat run by the Australian Davos Connection (the local arm of the World Economic Forum) some time ago. In the closing session, the CEO of a global Australian-based manufacturing company gave his views on Australia’s choices in a globalised world economy. There were two key points about his address that took my attention. Firstly, he was…

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Blind Spots of the Old Guard

Talking recently with some switched-on company directors, I heard them lamenting in-the-box thinking of their peers. It seems that many boards and leaders, faced with a radically changing business landscape are simply putting their heads in the sand and getting on with business the way it used to be. The executive recruiters who fill board and leadership vacancies do so with traditional and conservative recruits…

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Approaching The Corporate Heart – A Personal Story

A year and a half ago a miracle baby, my granddaughter, Jasmine, was born. Twenty three years before that her mother, my daughter, Lija had died in my arms. The evening this happened Lija had raced down stairs of the house into which we had just moved, grey faced and using swear words I didn’t know she knew. Minutes later she collapsed in my arms….

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Opportunity or Disaster?

This year in Australia the last two car manufacturers have announced they will close their operations. This means that all related industries – e.g. parts manufacturers will in time be forced to close.  It is not unreasonable to assume that upwards of 50,000 people will be out of work. Meanwhile Alcoa has confirmed that it will close its plant in Geelong, creating more unemployment. I…

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Extracts from Approaching the Corporate Heart, “The Hero’s Journey” by Margot Cairnes, 2003, Simon & Schuster: Sydney. Chapter 2 Who Is A Hero? Question: How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Only one, but the light bulb really has to want to change. Outstanding performers are characterized, according to Harvard Professor of Psychiatry Albert Rothenberg (1990), not by intelligence, temperament,…

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