Leadership Lessons From The All Blacks
Albeit this Rugby World Cup was a disappointment for England, it did not take away from the spectacle of the occasion and anticipation of two great Rugby nations squaring up to [...]
Albeit this Rugby World Cup was a disappointment for England, it did not take away from the spectacle of the occasion and anticipation of two great Rugby nations squaring up to [...]
On a sunny day in September Michael Bungay Stanier and I shared some key strategies on how very busy managers can work less hard and have more impact. We talked about [...]
Our focus here at Catalyst is about helping people do more Great Work and that's about stretch, people stepping outside the lines of their job description (good work) and doing the work [...]
14. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Steve Jobs's final leadership lesson and this was that famous line delivered at his Stanford University commencement address in June 2005, 'stay hungry, stay foolish'. Jobs throughout [...]
12. Know both the big picture and the details. Some CEO’s are great at one or the other of these, but very rarely both. It’s simply not the norm to be [...]
10. Tolerate only ‘A’ players. This lesson is simple really, Jobs was just interested in working with the best and wanted to avoid what he called the ‘bozo explosion’, working with [...]
Michael Bungay Stanier renowned International Speaker (and founder of our partner organisation in Canada) is running a series of free monthly Webinars, 'Tools for the Time Crunched Manager'. The intention is [...]
8. Impute. Mike Markkula was an early mentor of Jobs and he encouraged three principles for Jobs to work by – EMPATHY, FOCUS AND IMPUTE. For those of you like me [...]
Jen Shirkani contributes this article to Training Magazine, illustrating how crucial it is for leaders to drop the ego and adopt good EQ by staying in touch with the front line: [...]
7. Bend Reality. Steve Jobs had an infamous ability to push people to do the impossible, what he dubbed as his ‘reality distortion field’, a Star Trek term that was fictional [...]