You alone are responsible for leading your thoughts, words, decisions, behaviours, emotions, habits, direction in life. In turn, what you do and say, and how you choose to behave, has an impact on others around you. Being a leader in this sense, is about making a contribution on a conscious level to the success andRead More…
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New Year, New Goals, New Habits
The new year has well and truly arrived, following the end of a particularly eventful year. Now is the perfect time to choose a few well-considered goals that will move you towards success for the new year ahead. While goal setting makes our intentions explicit, it is only the beginning of the work that willRead More…
An organizations most valuable asset is their people
This week’s blog post discusses productivity and profitability. Last week, I mentioned how hard New Zealand teachers and leaders work. The reality is, as a nation we work really hard. With the exception of Iceland (a country that enjoys icy cold conditions and 6 months of darkness a year), the average New Zealander apparently spends moreRead More…
Leadership can be a lonely place
A colleague once shared a wise Chinese proverb with me. Loosely translated it says ‘it is a cold and lonely place on top of a mountain’. He was talking about leadership. We need to make a clear distinction here between between leaders and leadership. Leaders are not lonely people, per se. On the contrary. LeadersRead More…
Experience is the best teacher
The following quote from Bolman and Deal’s Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership had me thinking: “Experience, one often hears, is the best teacher, but that is only true if you reflect on it and extract its lessons”. How true. Professional development is all about continually learning to be a better teacher, and what betterRead More…
