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My articles provide insights to business and life through the lens of sport, principally cricket.
They are written to encourage discussion, debate and commentary.

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Another way

by John Buchanan
(adapted from John Buchanan, If Better is Possible) How Many Times have you been confronted with a problem or a task that seems impossible to solve … until someone else comes along and solves it quickly because they view it from a different perspective? I am a great admirer of…
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Young Mountain Climber

How Big do You Dare to Dream? – What’s Your Everest?

by John Buchanan
In the distance, steepling above the horizon, is Mt Everest. Then young mountain climber, Michael Groom had just scaled Cho Oyu (8612m), the sixth highest peak on the planet. His dream was to not only climb Everest, but also to climb all five highest peaks in the world without the…
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Leave Your Legacy

Leadership is to Leave Your Legacy

by John Buchanan
During my time as Coach of the Australian Cricket team, I had the absolute privilege to meet some of the world’s most honoured leaders – from the Queen, to Prime Ministers and Presidents, to CEO’s and Board members of large global corporates, to religious  leaders and of course to internationally…
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Peak Performance Team

Be the Market Leaders over the Long Term

by John Buchanan
If I asked you to suggest some names that might occupy the title of a team, a business, an organization that is a market leader, a peak performance team, pending on your location and experiences some names would be Microsoft, Apple, Google, Walt Disney, Mercedes, The Beatles, the Bolshoi Ballet,…
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Be Your Own Best Coach

by John Buchanan
When I talk with people, business, sport or life, and ask them  – ‘..can you recall when you had a great day at work? Or what was a  project or a match or a task that you completed and felt that that was the best you could do?’ Most people…
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Do answers to the performance management revolution lie in sport?

by John Buchanan
Over the past 5-10 years, business and large corporations have been revisiting the best ways to manage staff and develop their people as one response to the changing demands on the organisation. These changing demands are internally driven by the so-called generation “x” and “y’s” , the fading numbers of…
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As a Coach

by John Buchanan
As a coach, businessman or parent, your role as trying to make yourself as ‘redundant’ as possible. The concept of being redundant is part of the total philosophy, and connects directly with creating a learning environment and knowing the whole person. My goal as a parent is to gradually have my children educated academically and…
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Leadership is about framing the problem

by John Buchanan
Looking at the issue with a different perspective – what was it that made me look at cricket from a different angle that departed from traditional coaching, for example computer technology? Applying for the role as Coach of the Queensland Bulls in 1994 was a watershed moment in my life. My initial…
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Create your game plan for sustained success

by John Buchanan
Part of being able to sustain success is to create a Game Plan for enduring success based on 5 pillars – 1)      Vision and overarching strategy – When I started with the Australian team I told them we are going on a journey to ‘Everest’ together. I did not know what…
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Resolutions or resolve for 2017?

by John Buchanan
How many New Year resolutions will you make on the night of the 31st December? And more importantly, how may will you keep…..? When coaching the Australian cricket team at this time of the year, we would have completed a Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne and then head to Sydney…
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Australia Test Series

Business can learn from the current India-Australia Test series

by John Buchanan
Technology in all its forms is transforming sport, business, the world. However, some technologies deliver unintended consequences which are not beneficial to the business. The use of a technology and a player review system call DRS has been at the centre of controversy in the current India- Australia Test series…
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Young Mountain Climber

5 tips to get your team members to buy into change

by John Buchanan
Change is always present in sport, business and life. But unless as individuals we can understand what the change is, and how it will affect or impact me, then we will resist. Better the devil you know than the one you don’t. As a new coach brought into the Australian…
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A coach and a leader with a unique perspective on the world, John is at home in any environment which seeks change, a desire for peak performance, and a vision to be the world’s best.

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This world champion coaching model will provide you, your team and your business with a road map to the top and the sacrificial acts that world champion teams embrace to give the best chance of having a “PB day”, every day at work.

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