I’ve recently completed reading The Ride of a Lifetime by Executive Chairman of The Walt Disney Company and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Robert Iger. It’s a fascinating insight into how to lead in a creative environment, however the lessons in leadership are universal....
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Let me tell you a story about a CEO of a booming tech company named John. John is one of the most likeable guys you’d ever meet. He’s friendly, approachable and inspirational. John walks the hallways daily and he knows everybody’s name and when he...
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For many of us, leadership is something that happens organically over the course of our career. Often in our first job we start out as an individual contributor and as our career advances, we take on our first direct report. Years tick by quickly and before...
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Former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch is a passionate advocate of the "bottom 10 percent rule". In his 2005 book "Winning", he advocates that managers should assess their employees every year, and divide them into three categories: the top 20 percent, the middle 70...
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When Gillon McLachlan, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Football League (AFL) said that ‘footy is resilient and footy will find a way through’ in March this year, I don’t think he had anticipated the challenge ahead for him, the AFL and for the people...
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