Maradona’s Mistake
It was terrific to see Juan Martan del Potro beat Roger Federer in the US Tennis Open and provide some much needed relief to the Argentinean psyche. My wife and I have just spent two weeks in Buenos Aires on holiday and the Argentineans were in a state of despair. Far and away the topic dominating the television was the impending football match against Brazil. The rivalry between these two giants of South American football is perhaps one of the fiercest in the world. After a particularly rough.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Anna Meares
Emotional Intelligence has been defined as the wait between impulse and action. Indeed Daniel Goleman (whose book, Emotional Intelligence, launched both the term and the movement) used the marshmallow study as the demonstration of emotional intelligence. In the 1960s a group of four-year olds were tested by being given a marshmallow and promised another, if they could wait 10 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The experimenters then followed the p.....
Read MoreWhen Will We Ever Learn? A Postscript
Last November Jeffery Pfeffer was in Sydney at the invitation of Australian Institute of Management presenting on his current topic, Evidence Based Management for Business based on his latest book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management jointly written with Robert Sutton. I attended the seminar and finally finished reading the book last week. The book was better than the seminar although it was great to see Professor Pfeffer in action and g.....
Read MoreLessons from Lear Part 2
In my previous post, Lessons from Lear, I received the comment from Mhlosh that one should not take lessons from Lear, making the comment Lear tried to measure the quality and quantity of his daughters' love for him. Love doesn't work like that. Bad things ensued. Of course at the first level King Lear is a Shakespearean tragedy that illustrates what happens when children are consumed by greed and lose their love for their parents. On the other hand, Charles Handy considered Lear one of the b.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
"Put in a sales perspective, I loved your presentation! I got a lot from what you talked about and I will read your book."
Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
Christi Spring CEO Institute. - web www.ceo.com.au.