Business Leadership and People Management

Context Ever found yourself in a new working group, expected to collaborate with a bunch of other people to achieve a common goal, despite the existence of a whole range of factors that will [...]

Feeback Tips for Team Leaders Many who take a leadership role in their teams find one of the most challenging responsibilities they face is the need to apply firm, fair and effective guidance to [...]

The Risk in Seeing HR Management as Risk Management In an increasingly regulated and litigious society, Human Resource (HR) Managers have seen their role shift strongly towards management of the [...]

Context The following piece grew out of an email response made to a young entrepreneur who had encountered a negative reaction from a family member to his fast-growing success.Put momentarily off [...]

Backstory Phillip Di Bella’s story is one of indisputable financial success but for him it was never about “the money”.  Today, with BRW putting his personal wealth at more than $100 million and [...]

A Word about Business Founders Michael Gerber in The E-Myth said, “Most small business owners are technicians who’ve suffered an entrepreneurial seizure”. It’s a statement with a lot of factual [...]

Learning to Manage Contractors Many contractors may prove, by their behaviour and their lack of backup, of systems and of organisation, to be little more than “employees without [...]

Many who take a leadership role in their teams find one of the most challenging responsibilities they face is the need to apply firm, fair and effective guidance to a team member. Failing to get [...]

I’ve just read a paper titled “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments” by Justin Kruger and [...]

Paperless Workplaces & Email Policy Issues The idea of a “paperless office” was first spruiked in the mid-1960s by marketers positioning IBM’s computers for broader commercial use – and it [...]