by Trish Springsteen | Nov 10, 2009 | Business, Leadership, Women in Business
I have attended a fair number of meetings in my life, ranging from committee, executive, and general to annual general meetings. Attendance at the meetings has ranged from 5 to 2000. Some have been examples of well run, competently chaired smooth meetings. Others have...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 8, 2009 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
When you are faced with a problem which seems to defy a solution, what do you do?Do you decide that it’s probably all too hard and put it on the back burner? Do you hand it over to someone else with a thankful sigh? Or do you grit your teeth and keep on trying to...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 5, 2009 | Business, Leadership, Personal Development
In a recent discussion with a friend of ours, (Dr Wayne Applewhite of “Just Leadership” ) the question of “ethics” arose. In some research which Wayne is conducting it appeared that the problem of ethics was of concern to a number of Leaders.I wrote a somewhat...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 3, 2009 | Communication, Public Speaking
Yesterday was Melbourne Cup Day in Australia. For Australians it is the race that stops a nation. All over the country bets were being placed, hats dusted off and copious amounts of champagne were being drunk at lunches. As the start of the race nears, silence...
by Trish Springsteen | Nov 1, 2009 | Business, Leadership, Personal Development
It is a strange thing but once you have focused on a topic you find it cropping up everywhere.After our ‘merrymaking with management theories’ blog, I found the subject being raised by a variety of people in some very odd situations – but the oddest was when I caught...
