Australian Private Capital & nLIVEn are proud to invite you to Success Is Changing a series of private dinner events held at Melbourne Business School in 2018-2019. These events explore the principal challenge facing business leaders today. In simple terms, success today does not guarantee success tomorrow. The life expectancy of Fortune 500 companies is falling. […]
Jul 2018
Next week I am leading an offsite strategy advance for a leadership team (board and executives) of eleven people in rural Victoria. The following email is part of a daily series I sent to the participants, to help them prepare for the offsite event that is a key component of the strategic planning process we […]
Jan 2018
Have you worked on your vision but are not sure whether it is complete yet? You can find out using the free self-assessment tool below. In “Chapter 5 – Expressing Your Vision” of the book Visioning by Glenn A. Williams, Glenn provides a couple of examples of visions that his clients have prepared with his assistance. He included […]
Dec 2017
What is the principal challenge facing business leaders today? The answer most management experts will give you is that “success is changing”. In simple terms, success today does not guarantee success tomorrow. The life expectancy of Fortune 500 companies is falling. The average tenure of CEOs is falling. Disruption and non-linear change are now the […]
Nov 2017
Shahara Wright; the Texas USA based host of “The CEO Collaboration Circle”, interviews Glenn A. Williams on staying alive through the dangers of leading by adapting to change. The word leadership invokes various amounts of thoughts and actions. All it really means in the end is that you have the ability to get through challenges […]
Oct 2017
Are you suffering from executive loneliness? Could it be that you’re using the wrong leadership configuration for your personality? Whether you are employed as a CEO or self-employed as a CEO, a fundamental choice you have made (and will continue to periodically make as your enterprise grows) is to be a solo act or a […]
Sep 2017
A “catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic” is causing a host of potentially fatal diseases, a leading expert has said. In an interview with the Guardian, Professor Matthew Walker, director of the Centre for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, said that sleep deprivation affected “every aspect of our biology” and was widespread in modern society. […]
Apr 2017
Are you working “on” yourself and your business enough? One of the challenges of being a busy executive, business owners or independent professional is that you are often time poor. Ironically though, if you don’t change where you are headed you are likely to end up where you are going. That is, unless you regularly […]
Mar 2017
You’ve concluded that it’s time you engaged a business or executive coach. You’ve done your research and chosen the coach you’d like to hire. Now comes the final challenge – persuading your manager that coaching is a sound investment. Furthermore, sometimes your manager is not the only one that needs to be won over. Your […]
Oct 2016
When you are promoted to the position of CEO, MD or chairman, it is imperative that you adapt. You need to successfully navigate a risky period of transition in the evolution of your career. On one hand, everything you have ever done prepares you for becoming a CEO, MD or chairman – but on the […]
Sep 2016
Are you considering whether to merge your business with another business? Or, are you considering acquiring a business and integrating it into your existing business? Perhaps you’ve been charged with bringing two or more businesses together and it’s not clear whether it will be a merger or an acquisition. Maybe you are mid-way through a […]
Aug 2016
In studying leadership, a topic that is often overlooked is followship. Followship is a willingness to accept direction and guidance from leaders in an organisation. An employee who practices followship recognizes that any effective organisation needs both leaders and followers. However, I would go one step further: great leaders create space for people on their […]
Jun 2016
Former Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, says she wishes she did. Gillard, now chair of the Global Partnership for Education, recently told a Melbourne audience that three leadership lessons had crystalised for her during her short-lived time as prime minister: the importance of having a sense of purpose, knowing the difference between what she termed “the urgent and […]
Jan 2016
When you think about a typical organisation chart, it looks like a pyramid, with the people in senior leadership and management positions at the top of the pyramid. As you work your way down, you’ll find customer service staff and administrative employees at the bottom. In other words, the “big wigs” are at the top, […]
Nov 2015
In my special report “Untapped”, I introduce the idea of an “Unnatural Leader”. It is a concept that I coined as a result of coaching and mentoring hundreds of CEOs and Managing Directors over the past fifteen years on how to harness more of the leadership potential within their organisations. One of the spoken (or […]
Oct 2015
Clarity is an extremely important concept. It is one many CEO’s and executives don’t focus on until it is too late. Without clarity a CEO will quickly find himself and his organisation in trouble. Lacking clarity is a leadership failure, but it is a temporary one. It is one which can be easily resolved and […]
Aug 2015
We received a strong response to our recent post “Managing Your Household – Part 1”. The idea that to put the world in order, we must first put our family in order, seems to have struck a chord. In that article, I invited you to consider the following question: “What if you thought of your […]
Aug 2015
Last month, I was invited by one of my clients to speak to a forum of company directors on the subject of “Identifying Personal Roadblocks”. I was pleased by their choice of topic, as it revealed some insight into the intimate connection between personal and professional development. I’ve been reflecting on the presentation I gave […]
Jul 2015
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” – Confucius What Get’s Measured, Get’s Managed What […]
Jun 2015
We often hear the complaint that “the leadership is not providing enough leadership”. In doing so, we confuse leadership with authority. In those cases, what people mean is that those people with authority are not exercising enough leadership. What if you thought about “leader” as a verb rather than a noun? Think about WHAT it […]
Oct 2018