October 08, 2014
Written by Jenny Brown – JBS Financial Strategists. If I told you to imagine your retirement, what would it look like? The time and money to travel the world, the ability to spend more time with family, restoring that old 1960 Shelby GT500 or maybe you just want to stop and smell the roses. Now […]
Read MoreOctober 06, 2014
“I’m not the boss because I’m always right. I’m always right because I am the boss.” ~ Unknown We’ve all had them. A bad boss! I have seen the good, the bad and the plain ugly of leadership. And lots of the ugly! Looking back, some of the instances I have seen, it does make […]
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2014
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ~ Aristotle Over the generations, and certainly now in our technological time, some of us have become really, really good at being critics. It’s really easy to point out what people are doing wrong, fashion faux pas, poor public speaking and poor performance. We’ve practically made […]
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2014
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus”. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr The leadership evolution is an interesting one. Leadership styles have evolved as more research is conducted; more insight is gained into what works and what doesn’t, as people get savvier and more intelligent and as times […]
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2014
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ~ Michelangelo We are all guilty of flying under the radar at some stage of our lives. Many of us are taught this at an early age. […]
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2014
“To effectively communicate, we must realise that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” ~ Tony Robbins Last weeks blog “Has Technology Killed Leadership” received quite a lot of feedback. I wasn’t surprised that it was mostly in […]
Read MoreSeptember 14, 2014
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” Theodore Roosevelt Some of us have an insatiable hunger for technology. As soon as new iPhone’s are released there are advanced orders and people queuing at the Apple stores from about 3am in the morning prior to […]
Read MoreSeptember 08, 2014
“Marketing used to be about what you say. Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.” ~ Seth Godin Seth has been an inspiration and a mentor to me for many years. I love the way he thinks. I […]
Read MoreSeptember 02, 2014
“We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly, change will take us by the throat.” ~ Winston Churchill It used to be common for people to tell you to ‘work harder’ if you weren’t achieving what you needed to. Falling behind was met with the death stare from the boss and you knew […]
Read MoreAugust 25, 2014
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for”. ~Grace Hopper I was watching a TED talk by Simon Sinek. His topic; “Why good leaders make you feel safe”. If your people feel safe, they will do their very best for you and extraordinary things will happen in organisations. Now […]
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