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The great leadership debate: do you need to be an SME?

I live in New Zealand, so I have to slip rugby in here somewhere. Sir Steve Hansen will do. He led the All Blacks to win 93 of the 107...

Lessons from a dull Saturday night: losing and failure

Last Saturday night I sat doing my knitting with half an eye on the Blues/Chiefs game on the TV - an insight into my thrilling social...

Yesterday's news, today's agility

Tuesday night Prime Minister Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield held an emergency press conference. New...

We get the why, focus on the how

A few years ago, Simon Sinek came to the mainstream with The Golden Circle concept: Start with Why. In short, he states all organisations...

Our Friday quizzes

A few weeks back we decided to up our quiz game. Not content with simply ploughing through the Stuff quizzes, we decided that on Fridays...

The 5G conversation we should be having

For the past few months, conspiracy theories have been running wild about what 5G networks are and aren't doing (newsflash: they do not...

Tight teams in turbulent times

We use Patrick Lencioni's work on teams in our face-to-face workshops. The concepts from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team are relateable...

SCARF—a tool to understand reaction to the pandemic?

Threats and rewards are a topic in many of our workshops—they are a way to understand what drives people to behave in particular ways....

Laughing all the way to a great team

I was working with a team this week and we ended up talking about humour and why it's a powerful ingredient for teams. Years ago I joined...