With a big ‘hat tip’ to the excellent author & speaker Simon Sinek, this attribution from him is both insightful and brilliant.

In this blog, I want to challenge conventional thinking around hubris, humility and life-long learning.

Why do young children so openly and willingly admit when they don’t know something?

Something happens to us as teenagers and young adults, where we become reluctant to volunteer when we don’t know something.

It gets drilled out of us.

Beyond these formative years, the unwillingness to admit we don’t know something often becomes a default position in conversations, meetings and interpersonal interactions.

Understanding different modes of communication between genders can assist in optimizing relationships.

It’s been observed that one of the key differences in gender-based communication is that ‘Women want to feel’ and ‘Men want to fix’.

Before I get accused of stereotypical behaviour, this is recognized as a key differential in communication modes between genders.

I’ve personally seen first-hand how I can quickly default to ‘fix’ mode when discussing issues with my wife and daughter.

Since my attention was drawn to this, I have observed this play out often in conversations between genders.

In this blog, I want to explore what we can all learn in being aware of this.

Most people know what they want.

The challenge is they don’t know how to get it.

In this blog, I want to share my hacks, tactics and tools on how to avoid the pitfalls of failing to execute.

But before you execute, you need a plan.

Business owners often overlook how empowered they are in setting their agenda.

Most business owners claim to be a victim of poor diary management. This results in their priorities being constantly ignored or deferred.

I am passionate about taking control of Diary Architecture.

Architecture is a useful term to introduce here as it relates to the art and science of construction. It is the style of design and method of construction.

In this blog, I will explore how to adopt a Diary Architecture that puts you in control and makes your priorities paramount.

Regardless of which industry our businesses operate within, invariably business owners want to talk about improving their people skills.

I often say to business owners that we don’t do business with other businesses - we do business with people.

Understanding people and cultivating winning relationships is paramount.

In this blog, I want to expand on the different personas that exist within every business. Customers, Employees and Suppliers are all key cohorts of people that we need to build relationships with.

Let’s look at the personas within these three groups.

Later in 2024, Australia will introduce legislation (amendment to the Fair Work Act) around employees having the right to disconnect from their employment outside of normal working hours.

This will grant employees the right to refuse to respond, monitor or engage with any work-related communications from their employers or third parties outside of working hours. Should an employee refuse, an employer may not instigate any negative consequences upon the employee.

I’ll leave brighter legal minds to provide detailed commentary on the specifics of the legislation.

However, I see this ‘Right To Disconnect’ (RTD) legislation as a solution to a problem we don’t need.