Potential Manager Flaws
I recently finished reading Why Smart Executives Fail by Sydney Finkelstein. While some observers try to argue that companies fail because the lack of intelligence of their senior executives, Finkelstein argues that it is flaws in the personality that cause failure. Mimicking Steven Covey, Finkelstein lists the seven habits of spectacularly unsuccessful people: They see themselves and their companies as dominating their environments. The CEO believes he is personally pre-eminent. They see.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Pfeffers Power
I recently finished reading Jeffery Pfeffer’s Power: Why some people have it – and others don’t. One of my favourite quotes from my venture capital days is “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” Power is about the anti-entrepreneurs, people who join large organisations in government and business and seek to rise to the top. This book is the complete antithesis of most gur.....
Read MoreWhy Should Anyone Be Led By You?
Rob Goffee, who is the professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School, is famous for asking the above question in an awarded HBR article which then morphed into a book. Rob often comes to Australia, (towards the end of the English winter) and has spoken several times to LBS alumni. I well remember his first talk when he was putting forward his latest theory of leadership, saying the secret was authenticity. As the doyen of the alumni present, Rob asked me what I thought of auth.....
Read MoreAmanda Foreman on leadership
Surrounded on all sides: At times of absolute crisis the psychological bedrock of a great leader becomes exposed. Earlier this week Amanda Foreman, the British biographer and historian, addressed more than 700 people at the annual Sydney Institute Dinner. Her subject was leadership, a popular topic with only 55+ million hits on Google. Amanda argued that while no single quality can or should define a leader, it is in times of absolute crisis, when every reasonable course of action appears to .....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
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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.
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