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The Same But So Different
By Chris Gandy Working with Cause and Effective is like shifting through a box of assorted buttons. The organisations we deal with have one thing in common – are all cause-based. But there the...
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Tell Me What Your Really Thinking – The Importance of Board Feedback
“I am so frustrated. My board is made up of some wonderful passionate and well intentioned people, but they are absolutely hopeless in giving me any constructive feedback on how I and my senior team...
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Great! That Means Another 50 Years of Prostate Exams ….
By Ian Sampson “The good news is: I plan to live until I am 110,” I informed my GP recently. Before he could bluster a response I charged on with: “The really good news is: I want you to be around...
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The Best Advice I Ever Received as a NFP CEO
From Chris Gandy I left a senior role in the corporate sector to take up a CEO position in a relatively small not for profit in the mid 80’s During my first week I meet with the organisation’s...
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OK, Let’s Talk About Kevin
By Chris Gandy Apologies to Lionel Shriver fans and those who just can’t get enough copy about our former PM. My Kevin is not a person, fictional or otherwise, but is a little Kookaburra and he is...
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The Power Of More Than One
By Ian Sampson High profile leaders of the past and present have usually been great at one aspect of leadership and merely good to so so at several others. For example, George Bush was good at...
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To Get Respect You Need To Do More Than Lip-Sync Aretha
By Chris Gandy I was watching Aretha Franklin belt out R-E-S-P-E-C-T in an umpteenth rerun of the Blues Brothers movie the other night and couldn’t but help think how this song was probably sending...
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Still Walking in Their Shoes
After take-off on the “Red-eye” from Perth to Sydney the other night, I decided to forego the in-flight entertainment and listen to my own music and hopefully get some shut-eye. This was my last trip...
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Good CEO Candidates Aren’t Fools
By Chris Gandy I have a few people to thank for encouraging me to develop our Janus CEO Transition Program. Unwittingly, Alex was one of them. I have known Alex and the organisation he was the Board...
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NFP Leaders Better Get Used To Wearing Some New Hats
By Chris Gandy One of the most common questions we are asked by Not for Profit Boards who find themselves in a position of suddenly having to search for a new Chief Executive is: “What should we look...
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