Learn from those at the forefront
Over the past four weeks, we've discussed our national productivity and the need to improve it if were to maintain our standard of living.
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The difference between business and sport
We are often asked about the similarities and differences between business and sport. For those of you who are interested, heres what weve found.
Black Caps World Cup campaign
Given the one-sided final at the MCG on Sunday, it is only right that Brendan McCullum and his men will delay any talk of the Black Caps campaign until after Australia has relished the experience of once again lifting the Cricket World Cup trophy.
Being better
In recent months the conversation about whats fair versus what could or should an organisation expect from its people in terms of performance has once again shifted from an interesting philosophical debate into a point of contention following the...
High performance leadership
Having specialised in performance for over 20 years, I am convinced organisational success is largely a consequence of leadership.
Engineering a step-change in performance - Part 2
Last month we examined the Auckland blues. This month we will look at the act of stepping up from a different perspective – being that required by the citizens of challenged EU nations.
Similarities between business and sport
With a number of Olympic trials starting this month, it seemed pertinent to examine the correlation between business and sport in an attempt to help you identify strategies used by coaches that could be deployed in your organisation.
All Blacks’ form – leveraging capability
Whilst the All Blacks recent form would suggest they have made some decent headway in terms of increasing their psychological capacity to perform i.e. gaining traction in the area of improving mind-sets, the Springboks collapse is rather more surprising.
Commercial coaching
For a number of years now the business world has embraced the analogy of ‘coaching because it assumed the approach taken by sports coaches is likely to be more effective in regards to ‘leveraging capability and ‘developing potential than the traditional...