success Archives - Strategic Leadership

24 Feb

A Framework for Setting your Business up for Success in a Volatile World

In Structure & Processes, VUCA

A Framework for Setting your Business up for Success in a Volatile World - In a difficult environment, leaders need to resist the impulse to adopt a defensive pose. They must instead take actions that will position their organization for success. Uncertainty is like the weather. It’s always there, part...

25 Nov

The precise number of people to put on a team to maximise productivity

In Leadership, Team

This is the precise number of people to put on a team to maximise productivity - Tech exec and entrepreneur Mona Sabet explains the exact size of a group that can build and maintain empathy and shared purpose to bring out maximum performance. In 2012, I founded Hipower, a nonprofit...

28 Oct

Google Released Research On What Makes a Good Boss

In Leadership

Google Released Research On What Makes a Good Boss – Do you agree? Some say the best kind of boss is one who leaves you alone – and new research released by Google shows that it’s kind of true. For over a decade, researchers at the tech giant have...

22 Jul

Top Rated CEO of 2019 Shares a Simple Formula for Leadership Success

In Leadership

Everybody loves a good top 100 list. It could be the best cities to live in, the top restaurants, or in this case, the highest rated CEOs in America. I love Glassdoor's annual list of the Top CEOs because it's based on how employees of major corporations feel about their culture...

15 Apr

How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great Leader

In Leadership

How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great Leader Great companies are built by great leaders. (That’s why the ability to identify and attract talented people is almost as critical as the ability to develop talented people.) But since leadership is more art than science,...

21 Dec

Transparency Is Key to Building Trust in Business

In Business, Trust

Transparency Is Key to Building Trust in Business - When an engine exploded on Qantas flight QF32 on Nov. 4, 2010, endangering the lives of 469 passengers and crew, the plane’s captain, Richard de Crespigny, didn’t curse, panic, or pray. Instead, he relied on the supreme trust he had...

26 Nov

The Big Lies of Strategy

In Strategy

The Big Lies of Strategy by Roger L. Martin - You don’t need a 100-page strategic plan. Strategy is actually about making five specific choices. - THOSE WHO KNOW ME WELL know that I have a love/hate relationship with all things strategic. On the one hand, I hate ‘strategic planning’...

12 Nov

The Compound Effect – Book Review

In Kerry Bellamy, Personal Development

The Compound Effect: Jump start Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy is, not only a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller, it is a straight-talking practical guide to setting clear goals and doing the “stuff” that needs to get done in order to...

07 Mar

Elon Musk Work Ethic: 10 Secrets for Insane Success

In Leadership, Personal Development

Elon Musk Work Ethic: 10 Secrets for Insane Success: Now, Elon Musk is a smarter than average individual with an enormous ambition and drive. But I think that us–mere mortals–can incorporate some of his productivity secrets into our daily lives. Here are the top 10 productivity secrets of Elon Musk work...

07 Feb

My Happiness Tips for 2018 by Richard Branson

In Personal Development, Vision & Purpose

A few years ago I wrote the following letter for Mind’s book: Dear Stranger, Letters on the subject of happiness. I re-read it recently and was struck by how much the words still ring true, so I thought I would republish the letter in the hope that my words...