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…
In a recent interview with Peter Switzer on SKY NEWS Money, Peter suggested that both the Australian cricket team and the governing Liberal party have been not getting the results that should be coming from the talent and skills within the team. LISTEN HERE So he posed that one…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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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