I was listening to the radio just recently. A caller was asked about something he had done that was a bit unusual and his answer was “Run a 14km fun run in a Gorilla suit with my best mate”. Asked how wearing gorilla suits impacted their race time, his answer caught me and the radio
A few days ago I was watching Ashton Agar as he approached one of the great milestones in sport, a century (100 runs) in his first-ever match at the elite level, in circumstances that meant it would be unique in a game that has been played for over a century. He did not make that
I recently came across an old copy of BRW Magazine (November 2012) which explores “What Australia’s fastest growing companies have in common”. The article frequently uses the word resilience. Resilient is to me what organisations become when they are good at managing risk. I kept reading and was interested to learn the four common traits
This month’s whitepaper, “Enterprising Thought Leadership”, is about raising the profile and hence the performance of key staff in your organisation. Its key premise is that if you identify the thought leaders in your organisation, engage them and allow them to express themselves, they will become key leaders in the organisation. You can download the
This month’s whitepaper is from the December Harvard Business Review by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen and is titled “Surviving Disruption“. (My thanks to a colleague for highlighting it for me – thanks David!) You can access the article by registering for free on the Harvard Business Review website here. Wessel and Christensen use