Archive for March, 2007

Building Greatness - first who, then what

I was really looking forward to hearing Jim Collins speak at last month’s NPODs conference and hopefully to have him answer the one question that bugs me about his book “Good to Great”. The thing I didn’t understand was “How can you know the ‘right’ people before you know what you want to aim […]

All Hail the Captain Coach

One of the questions we regularly discuss with clients and colleagues is “What makes for a good leader in Australia?” and I keep coming back to the work of Graeme Hubbard and his colleagues in the book “The First XI”. They describe good leadership in Australia as:
“Captain coach leadership - where the leaders are […]