Honour and Leadership
Throughout history the virtue of Honour has inspired legendary feats of courage and elegant literature. Yet I don’t recall hearing the word even once in my first 5 years working with Melbourne business. Honour is the driving force behind loyalty, respect and heroic effort. Doesn’t that sound like the culture you’d want in your business? [...]
MasterChef ‘V8 Cake’ and Leadership
In 2010 Masterchef Finals week, six Finalists had four hours to replicate an exquisitely complex cake of eight different layers, multiple coatings and decorations of chocolate tiles and lotus flower, following a 4-page recipe. This V8 Cake’ was the technical and artistic wizardry of Chef Adriano Zumbo, who smiled wickedly, fully knowing he had created [...]
The Dilemma of Investing in Your People
Is it worth investing in your people when they can move on? There is a lot of talk about building relationship, most often to sell something or to create a leveraging point. Excellent companies invest in their people I know of an excellent company in a niche field where it takes many years for their [...]
