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Several years ago, on a flight from London to Melbourne, I sat next to a soft-spoken Scotsman from Aberdeen, who was then CEO of a business unit of Siemens.
Long haul business travellers usually seek solitude. but on this occasion we engaged in what was the beginning of a friendship. The humility and enthusiasm of this generous high achiever was uplifting as he talked about using role models to motivate his organization.
One he enthused about was Cliff Young, an Australian who at 61 achieved the impossible to win the 1983 Sydney to Melbourne ultra marathon, a 900km run.
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North Korea is keeping the heat up around Asia,
Myanmar is clarifying it’s diplomatic standing upon Aung San Suu Kyi.
And maybe we can have a chance to meet Iran’s first lady after the June election
What these events share in common is the question “Who’s going be the leader?”
For interest, I wondered what similarities these CEO’s have with leaders in business and what such people need to reach that position in their working career.
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As large companies continue to consolidate and look at ways to rationalize they inevitably focus to cut out the middle man. The falling out of Singapore International Airlines with one of their major agents, Flight Centre in Australia, tells the story of this type of change.
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Categories: Product Management, Selling, Strategy Management, Understanding Consumner Behaviour Tags: Airline, Australia, British Airways, Business, Flight Centre, Jetstar Airways, Qantas, Travel agency
As social networking in business continues defining itself so rapidly we will see many large and small players circumvented if they ignore it.
One thing I notice with many business peers, including CEO’s and business leaders alike, is they generally focus on what they understand well.
Social networks” as a relatively new phenomena is generally not one of them.
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Categories: Market Intelligence, Marketing, Performance Management, Understanding Consumner Behaviour Tags: Business, CEO’s current focus, LinkedIn, Marketing, Search engine optimization, Social network, social networking, Web Design and Development, Web search engine
Those who have come into management jobs in the last 18 years of 
growth and affluence now have challenges.
Companies are now very lean and highly intent on remaining viable as they look to position for upturn when it comes. The skills for pulling all this all together are in short supply.
I am not sure if the so called XY Gen awakening is so evident yet. But these guys are seriously racing to get skill sets needed to manage all this. I have no doubt that there is a rapid maturing of the so called good times over indulging and conservative "me" generations that make up much of our business culture .
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How can we take holidays in the middle of recession. Just do it, I say and why not if you can get away with it? It is is a great thing but you sure come back to earth when you find it all there waiting for you. But I am back now and here is a quick round up the last month and some stuff on whats’ to come.
My Quote for this month
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker
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Last month over 7000 visitors come to read us and over 60% who stayed over. As I am wrting this there are 251 people visiting now according to our blog meter. So it looks like we got something going which we hope we can keep up!!
Here is what we wrote about:
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“Our economic future is increasingly underwritten by the rise of Asia.”
It is interesting in Asia where lifestyles are good, the flow on economic slowdown has been less severe.
Something must be different?
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Categories: Economics & Environment Tags: Asia, Asian Economy, Australian Economy, Berkshire Hathaway, Business, Credit Card Risk, Credit rating, Credit rating agency, Moody, Oceania, United States
Do things really change or is it the way we see it?
To those who knew it then it may seem that the 
simple life was not always easy. But considering it now maybe they much better deal. I wonder if it is possible to get that back and still keep the best of both worlds. Should we try and if so how?
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As US President Obama passes his 100th day office in the white house, a poll reveals that his popularity is still up there. Following shortly, outbreak of the deadly A(H1N1) hits the front page of every newspaper and talksshow. I slowly realize that all of this is related to “change”.
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This story has been around a while but always worth recanting.
Bruce Sansome, Chairman of Natex Engineering Group in Australian shared this with a TEC Group in Melbourne recently.
As a lightheaded refocus he prefaced saying
"When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee."
Here is the story:
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Several years ago, on a flight from London to Melbourne, I sat next to a soft-spoken Scotsman from Aberdeen, who was then CEO of a business unit of Siemens.
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