Leadership Case Study: Malcolm Broomhead and Orica’s rescue
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Al Dunlap and the making of a Corporate Psychopath
Was Al Dunlap, the CEO who sent Sunbeam Corp into bankruptcy, a corporate psychopath? Corporate psychopaths, or workplace psychopaths, are […]
Knowledge Visualization – Evolution of the Can-Do Wisdom Framework
The Can-Do Wisdom Framework for Change shown below didn’t appear overnight. The Knowledge Visualization model I developed is the result […]
Aristotle on overcoming today’s crisis of leadership
Aristotle taught his pupils about ethics, virtues and communities some 2300 years ago. Much of his teaching is still valid […]
Florence Nightingale – Infographics Pioneer
Florence Nightingale was one of the pioneers in the use of statistics and infographics in achieving social reform. Florence Nightingale […]
Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War
The Can-Do Wisdom of Florence Nightingale – Part 2 examines the brief period of Florence Nightingale’s public life covering her […]
Vincent Lingiari – Savvy Leader of the Wave Hill Station Walk-off
Vincent ‘Tommy’ Lingiari’s leadership of the Gurindji people at the time of the Wave Hill Station walk-off in 1966 was […]
Anthony Foster – The tenacious advocate for victims of child sexual abuse
The first inkling that Anthony and Christine Foster’s daughter, Emma, might have been a victim of child sexual abuse came […]
Lou Gerstner – IBM’s Digital Transformation Change Master
If the 2016 Australian eCensus hadn’t been such a disastrous failure most people would not have known that IBM had […]
John Kotter – Leading Change Guru
When Professor John Kotter published his seminal work on leading change there was something unusual about this 197-page book written […]
John Boyd – Misunderstood Genius of Warfighting
The UN-dictated rules of engagement for the allied forces operating against North Korea were quite specific. No pilot was to […]
Edmund Rice – Social Entrepreneur
Edmund Rice, a successful Irish businessman, had the world at his feet. And yet he gave away his fortune in […]
Tom Seeley and the Wisdom of Bees
What can honeybees teach us about wisdom? One person who knows is Cornell University’s Professor Thomas D. Seeley, the world’s […]
Exploring the Relational Domain: The seatbelt story
Different roles played by individuals and their place in society is central to the Can-Do Wisdom Framework.
Cardinal George Pell – Does his leadership pass the wisdom test?
The testimony of Cardinal George Pell to Australia’s Royal Commission into child sexual abuse confirms the crisis in leadership in […]
Ava the Honey Bee – Change Instigator
This fable shows a change instigator at work. It was written in 2015 for my granddaughter, Ava, as a 20-page […]
George Mottershead – Change Master of Chester Zoo
Chester Zoo in the north of England is recognised as one of the leading zoos in the world. Home to […]