by Trish Springsteen | Dec 20, 2009 | Communication, Leadership
We have a radio station here in Queensland which keeps announcing that “We know the reason for the season!” At first it was cute, “Ah!” I thought “at last, someone realises that it is not all about ‘conspicuous consumption!’” but of course I was wrong – it was all...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 29, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Women in Business
If I were learning to play golf and my instructor told me that I had to have a good swing – but failed to tell me how to improve it – what good would that be? Or if I were practising for water polo and I was told that swimming was an integral part of the game – but...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 10, 2009 | Business, Leadership, Women in Business
I have attended a fair number of meetings in my life, ranging from committee, executive, and general to annual general meetings. Attendance at the meetings has ranged from 5 to 2000. Some have been examples of well run, competently chaired smooth meetings. Others have...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 8, 2009 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
When you are faced with a problem which seems to defy a solution, what do you do?Do you decide that it’s probably all too hard and put it on the back burner? Do you hand it over to someone else with a thankful sigh? Or do you grit your teeth and keep on trying to...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 5, 2009 | Business, Leadership, Personal Development
In a recent discussion with a friend of ours, (Dr Wayne Applewhite of “Just Leadership” ) the question of “ethics” arose. In some research which Wayne is conducting it appeared that the problem of ethics was of concern to a number of Leaders.I wrote a somewhat...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 1, 2009 | Business, Leadership, Personal Development
It is a strange thing but once you have focused on a topic you find it cropping up everywhere.After our ‘merrymaking with management theories’ blog, I found the subject being raised by a variety of people in some very odd situations – but the oddest was when I caught...