Where is your focus?

Focussed Wealth Strategy

Driving in the Dark Last night I was driving home in the rain. It appeared to be darker than usual. Given it hadn’t rained in Melbourne for a while I thought that I simply wasn’t used to driving in those conditions. As I drove closer to home I started to think there was something wrong […]

The Four Skills of Wellbeing

Brain - Four Skills of Wellbeing

I’ve just returned from my mindfulness study group lead by Mark Molony. Tonight we watched a video featuring Richard Davidson. He’s the professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as as the founder and chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center. Davidson is best known […]

Business Fitness

Business Fitness

Last night I presented at National Speakers in Melbourne. I’d like to say it went really well and everyone in the audience rushed up to me afterwards to say how ‘brilliant’ it was. Not quite. To be honest, it was not one of my best presentations. I felt really lost, I stumbled for words (which […]

The Three Leadership Situations

Leadership Axiom 2 - Situational

This is our fifth in a series of posts from the Book Rapper issue Authentic. It’s derived from Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones’ book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You that discusses what it takes to be an authentic leader. Previously in this series: Strong and Weak Leaders Leadership Situations Leadership is contextual or […]

Strong and Weak Leaders

Strong and Weak Leaders

This is our fourth in a series of posts from the Book Rapper issue Authentic. It’s derived from Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones’ book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You that discusses what it takes to be an authentic leader. Previously in this series: Self-Leadership – Know Yourself, Show Yourself Strong and Weak Leaders […]

Self-Leadership: Know + Show Yourself

This is our third in a series of posts from the Book Rapper issue Authentic. It’s derived from Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones’ book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You that discusses what it takes to be an authentic leader. Previously in this series: Three Leadership Axioms Self-Leadership If leadership is a relationship then […]

Coffee and Four Innovation Lessons

Innovation Lessons from Coffee

Some of life’s simplest pleasures can provide the greatest opportunity if we’d just take a moment to explore them. Today, in the spirit of Jerry Seinfeld we look at coffee as a filter for innovation. This is episode 74 of the Ideas Architect Podcast and it is based on a previous blog post. We look at […]

Three Leadership Axioms

Leadership Axiom 3 - Everywhere

This is our second in a series of posts from the Book Rapper issue Authentic. It’s derived from Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones’ book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You that discusses what it takes to be an authentic leader. Previously in this series: The Authentic Leader. Traditional approaches tend to view leadership as […]

The Authentic Leader

The Authentic Leader

Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones in their book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You discuss what it takes to be an authentic leader. Traditional approaches view leadership as a series of competencies to be learnt and developed. Whereas authentic leaders rely on being themselves and being responsive to the people and situations they encounter. […]

I almost quit…

No Smoking

At the start of this year I declared that I was going to blog everyday and post a podcast recording once a week. So far, I’ve kept this promise. And, recently I came close to quitting. It was becoming hard work and the results I had been getting based on my web stats were disappointing. Three […]