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Breaking Limits, Setting Audacious Goals, and the Power of Persistence
It was a dark rainy night, and I was in a call box waiting for my line to connect to Germany. I was failing, and I needed someone to talk to. That someone was Liz, who reminded me of my why. She reminded me that the 24 places on this course were the most coveted.
Read MoreLeadership is an act of love with service at its centre
Leadership is an act of love with service at its centre. Unfortunately, and to the detriment of us all, leadership is often mistakenly thought of as being about the exercise of power and control. We’ve all seen how damaging that kind of leadership can be. Most disturbingly, it’s the kind of leadership we sometimes see…
Read MoreWhat kind of leader are you?
What kind of leader are you? If you can answer that question with one or two words then I would argue you’re no kind of leader at all. That doesn’t mean that you aren’t capable of being a great leader. It probably reflects the fact that you haven’t had the opportunity to experience a range…
Read MoreLeadership is caught not taught
NZ Business readers are often small to medium-sized enterprises. That’s where we need to start growing robust leadership cultures, so that as these businesses grow they have the understanding of good leadership to support their growth and success. It’s too late to think you can ‘learn’ leadership once you have hundreds of people looking to…
Read MoreDoes our leadership culture respect those who made the ultimate sacrifice?
The following opinion piece was published by Stuff prior to ANZAC Day 2023. There were more than 200 comments on the piece before Stuff closed the comments section. This is exactly the kind of robust debate about ethics we need to be having in order to collectively raise our standards and our expectations of those…
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