Voting Green With Your Wallet
As the world works to battle and heal in the face of the novel coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented some unique silver linings. The earth is experiencing unforeseen environmental respite as waterways clear, and smog blankets lift; shining a light on how much we can achieve through the power of self-leadership.
DEUCE
Tennis plays a significant role in our household. My 10-year-old son is arguably the world’s greatest fan and an encyclopedia (or Wikipedia) of tennis facts. Even at his young age, I tell Scott he should join the commentary box. He’s also a solid player himself, competing in tournaments with the annual highlight being the Brisbane International, where kids get to compete alongside some of their idols.
Outstanding Leadership Awards 2020
With her trademark beaming smile Sonia McDonald stretches out her arms to hug me. “Hey Lovely, how are you?” she asks as I embrace her back. I go on to tell her about my morning juggling three kids on summer holidays and work deadlines. She ushers me over to a meeting room in an office we share in Brisbane’s CBD.
Opportunity Knocks
Today is the first day of your business life.
As leaders, we need to be reinventing ourselves every day to respond to our rapidly changing environment, and this is no different for business. With business strategies (and budgets) for this financial year in shatters, to survive right now you need to innovate rapidly.
Fail Early and Fail Fast
Most people are scared of failure. They think failure is symbolic of loss, non-success and disaster. I submit that it is the opposite of that – rather failure symbolises growth. It opens you up to learning, which opens you up to success. The earlier you fail, the earlier you learn, grow and get one step closer to your goal.
Childhood Leadership Lessons We All Learned the Hard Way
The life-long values that stay with you and permeate every aspect of your personal and professional life, will always be the ones you learn the hard way. Often with sadness, anger or even humiliation in tow, it is the difficult life lessons you learn that form the foundation of your leadership values system.
2020 – The Decade for Courageous Leadership
As the decade closed and the fires burned, we strategised the coming year for our brands. I’m analytical by nature and creative at heart, and love to create predictions for the coming years. One of my favourite predictions is the Pantone colour of the year, I usually at least get into the forecasts, and some years I nail it. Rather than a New Year’s resolution, I choose a word for the year to uphold. As we started a new decade, I went one step further and predicted for the world the word of the decade – courage.
Leadership Underfire
The second stanza of Dorothea Mackellar’s My Country is widely known in Australia. In a summer which has seen catastrophic fires, dust and thunderstorms along with flooding our leadership has been tested to the limit.
THE LOUDEST VOICE
Leadership doesn’t require a fancy title or company of 1000 people or more hanging off your every word. Leadership can be someone using their voice and their platform, whatever that may be, to call out bad behaviour.