The 2015 Global Innovation Index rankings are out and they provide another reason why leadership, and indeed our thinking needs to change – we are simply not creative enough and struggle to innovate new goods and services that add value. What’s worse is that we are not agile and responsive enough to take advantage of […]

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Two weeks ago we ran a workshop on building resilience for a national health insurer. We are being asked to do this more and more because there is a strong correlation between resilience and objective measures of performance along with subjective feelings of well-being.   Download the full article here; or please SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS […]

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Sherry Turkle is a clinical psychologist and sociologist at MIT and has spent 30 years observing the way we communicate. Her latest book, based on five years of research is Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. I was lucky enough to catch Turkle interviewed on PBS. The three take-aways were: The […]

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“Our reach should exceed our grasp, or what’s a heaven for” The slightly altered Robert Browning quote, above, is where I like to start the strategic planning journey. Browning urges us to dream big, to be expansive. Most strategic planning is simply too small in its ambition. “You can’t shrink your way to greatness” – […]

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People At Their Best are very proud to have teamed with My Freight Career & Frontline Resources Management to introduce an innovative new methodology for selecting candidates for the freight and logistics industry. My Freight Career (MFC) are innovation leaders and we were keen to partner with them to develop this new methodology, one that […]

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For a long time it was believed that human judgement was rational, that is, people made decisions based on the facts. What we now know is that when we face uncertainty we resort to familiar patterns of behaviour even when they are harmful to us. Over the past few weeks we have presented exciting research […]

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Recently we had the pleasure of working with Tracy Ezard who graphically recorded a Whole Brain Leadership Workshop we facilitated for the innovative Wenona School. The bringing together of art, science and education was a potent mix. This week we worked with the Partners of KPMG Private Enterprise on a similar Whole Brain Leadership journey. Download […]

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I was stunned yesterday when looking at stats from the ABS showing what Australian businesses had done over the past 12 months to improve their competitiveness. The usual suspects were there: Website; marketing; new product; outsource; reduced pricing and so on. Nowhere was there any mention of investment in people. Even the category “none” placed […]

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Over the years we have helped a number of fledgling musicians record and promote their music and also curated 100’s of gigs around Sydney. We have always been involved with art and creative people and one of the most common discussions has always been around what music (or any art) resonates most personally with people. […]

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