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Plans Not Made Can’t Succeed

This morning I added a voice over to a simple 8 slide Powerpoint deck about scenario planning during the Covid 19 crisis. As I...
06 April, 2020 /

How an Agile Executive Search Strategy Plays Out

The Australian Financial Review on Feb 5 2020 carried a piece by Edmund Tadros in which the CEO of Rio Tinto, Jean Sebastien...
12 February, 2020 /

4 Diversity Factors in Executive Search

Over the last 12 months in particular there has been an increase in the number of hiring managers asking questions about the...
15 January, 2020 /

AI, EI, Experience and Intuition

I have just returned from the annual Asia Pacific conference and network meeting in Hong Kong. This is one of three major...
28 October, 2019 /

Grow or Consolidate?

This is one question facing business leaders year after year. There is a tag line going around amongst consultants “growth is...
30 September, 2019 /

RESILIENCE, confidence and pivots - What leaders need

Returning this week to the insights from the Mindshop 2019 business leader report, our third key insight is that business...
28 August, 2019 /