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International Thought Leaders Forum - Our Global Future, Auckland
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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GLN presents a Leadership Event with a difference. Four global experts will convene in Auckland on 9 February 2007 and cover issues such as:
1. The Tipping Point for Leadership Excellence
2. The Need for Right Brain Thinking
3. Strategy and Innovation
4. Inspiring Trust and Commitment
5. How to gain support for new ideas and make them stick
6. The 6 essential skills white collar workers need in a global economy
7. Recruiting and retaining the right talent
Early Bird savings for bookings received by 30 November 2007!
Click here to register
Malcolm Gladwell: staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 1996. In 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He has authored two books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
C.K. Prahalad: The Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan is globally recognised for his research on next practices, corporate strategy and the role of top management in diviersified multinational corporations. He is author of the international bestsellers “Competing for the Future” (with Gary Hamel) and “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.”
Daniel Pink: author of “A Whole New Mind” which reveals the six abilities white collar workers must master to survive in an outsourced, automated, upside-down world. He is contributing editor at Wired and his articles on business and technology have also appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and other publications.
Goran Carstedt: leads the formation of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is the former head of IKEA Retail Europe and member of the IKEA Group Management Board. He previously served as President of Volvo Svenska Bil AB and was a member of the Volvo Group Management Committee. He is currently the chair of The Natural Step.
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Professor C.K. Prahalad
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Thursday, November 09, 2006
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 A cool friend of Global Leaders Network C.K. Prahalad will be speaking at events 'Our Global Future' in Auckland and 'NPODS 2007' in Sydney in February 2007.
C.K is ranked Number 3 in the World Thinkers and brings a wealth of experience on strategy, innovation, leadership and change.
Below are two reviews he has received from other world leaders.
"C. K. Prahalad argues that companies must revolutionize how they do business in developing countries if both sides of that economic equation are to prosper. Drawing on a wealth of case studies, his compelling new book offers an intriguing blueprint for how to fight poverty with profitability."
Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft
"The Bottom of the Pyramid belongs at the top of the reading list for business people, academics, and experts pursuing the elusive goal of sustainable growth in the developing world. C. K. Prahalad writes with uncommon insight about consumer needs in poor societies and opportunities for the private sector to serve important public purposes while enhancing its own bottom line. If you are looking for fresh thinking about emerging markets, your search is ended. This is the book for you."
Madeleine K. Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State
You can hear C.K speak on 9 February 2007 in Auckland. Click here for more details.
C.K will also be speaking in Sydney on 7 February 2007. Click here for more details.
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Simply Strengths
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Thursday, November 09, 2006
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Marcus Buckingham spent 18 years at Gallup with the Strengths Finder. Now he is working in his own right with organisations such as Yahoo, Coke, Hilton Group, John Deere and Best Buy.
Global Leaders has been working with Marcus and now has his newly released 6 set DVD titled Trombone Player Wanted. I have used this awesome DVD with 5 groups now with a fantastic response. A trailer of the video is available on the website to see more. Click here to view. Global Leaders has copies of the DVD available for New Zealand and Australia.
Check out Marcus Buckingham's website for more information on the work he does.
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John Kotter TV Interview
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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John Kotter's latest book Our Iceberg is Melting has raced into the top 100 Business Books with Amazon.com this week. For those interested clicking the below link will give you access to a recent TV interview he did on Boston Business. To view the interview click here.
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Our Iceberg is Melting - John P. Kotter Video Interview
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Saturday, October 07, 2006
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 The team at GLN have been long time fans of John P. Kotter. His new book 'Our Iceberg is Melting' is the best fable you will read - all in 45 minutes.
Our Iceberg Is Melting is based on Kotter’s pioneering work that shows how Eight Steps produce needed change in any sort of group. It’s a story that can be enjoyed by anyone while at the same time providing invaluable guidance for a world that keeps changing at ever faster rates.
Click here to watch this three (3) minute video interview.
John will be coming to Australia, New Zealand and Kuala Lumpur in July and August 2007. Copies of his new book will be available from Global Leaders Network on Monday 9 October 2006.
To purchase a copy or for obtaining further information please contact us at admin@globalleadersnetwork.net
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Our Global Future - New Zealand Launched
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Friday, October 06, 2006
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Global Leaders Network is delighted to launch its 'Our Global Future' series in New Zealand.
Featuring four of the world's leading experts on capability building and performance this promises to be an exceptional seminar for those leading and managing in organisations.
Keynote speakers include Professor C.K. Prahalad, Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink and Goran Carstedt.
Click here to obtain further information or email us at events@globalleadersnetwork.net
One idea can change the world. Don’t miss out on the incredible information you will receive on this website resource!
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Malcolm Gladwell Interview
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Thursday, October 05, 2006
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It was fantastic to have just caught up with Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point, while I was recently in New York. Below is an extract of the chat we had:
Your books the Tipping Point and Blink have had phenomenal success throughout the world, particularly for business leaders. What do you believe is the magic of these books and the message they send?
I wish I had a better answer for that question - I don’t really know. But I think these books are first of all intellectual ventures. They are trying to unravel the mysteries of everyday life in a way that I think is appealing. But they are mostly trying to kind of expose the structure of the way humans behave and to use kind of insights into psychology and geology to dig a little deeper and I think a lot of businesses look up when we talk about these things. So I think perhaps they satisfy readers on a different level than they’re used to being satisfied from a more conventional business book.
In the Tipping book you describe how ideas, products, messages and behaviours travel through our culture and in Blink how effective decisions are made. How do we develop our own individual intuitions leading to effective decision making?
Well intuition is a function of experience. What’s happening when we exercise intuition is we are drawing on our kind of unconscious database and the bigger that database is, the more sophisticated our intuition is. So the short answer is that we need to be exposed to a massive number of experiences in order to develop this kind of unconscious wisdom. The longer answer, I think, is that we can learn (I talk about this Blink) that there are situations where environments can construct that help people build their intuition more quickly. I am a big fan of, as paradoxical as it sounds, of structured spontaneity, of building structures, decision making structures which allow people to exercise their kind of spontaneous unconscious wisdom. You know our unconscious wisdom flourishes in our environments where we limit the amount of information on the table and if we want to help people make decisions we have to clear away that kind of debris and it gets them talking about this. With medical room doctors, sometimes the more limited information they know about patients allows them to exercise their judgment in a way that was quite impossible when they were inundated and flooded with data. So that is the kind of thing that I am trying to promote, that kind of, you know people sitting down and trying to understand the kind of situations that bring out the best in our thinking.
You said we live in a world that assumes that a quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went in to making it. I gather you’re saying we spend too much time gathering the facts and information than getting on with the task at hand.
In part. I mean I think that we do have a tendency to over-analyse certain kinds of decisions and kind of naïve faith in the value of the marginal piece of information. So this feeling that I have 10 data points that things will only get better if I add an eleventh I’m not sure it’s true. Maybe in some situations but in most situations all we do is confuse ourselves. And when we do that we add the extra piece of information because it benefits us and psychologically makes it feel more certain. It doesn’t benefit the quality of the decision and I don’t think the function of decision making is just to make the decision maker feel better with what we’re doing. I think the function of decision making is to ensure the best possible decision. So let’s be clear about why we’re doing all the data gathering, it’s just so that we can sleep a little easier at night. It’s not enhancing the quality of the output.
An issue keeping many leaders awake at night is attracting and retaining the right people for an organization. Do you believe we often make the wrong decisions based on looks or what we hope we believe we want in a person, for example you used the example of the symphony orchestra where the musicians were playing behind a curtain.
I do. I think in fact few if you talk to psychologists they’ll tell you few things are done more poorly inside the business world than job interviews. Job interviews are tremendously difficult and not only do we not acknowledge that, but we do this in such a way that we almost guarantee we are going to make the wrong decision. Because the simple fact is that we are confronted with somebody who we don’t know, and we deal with them in a kind of naïve way, we follow romantic rules by which I mean are not really romantic rules, but we follow the same rules we follow when we go out on a date.
We tend to be drawn to those who are physically attractive, who are outgoing and charming and there are a small subset of jobs for which those are very criteria qualities. There’s selling perfume in a boutique, you must be outgoing and physically attractive and charming. For almost everything else in the business world those are way down the list. What we are interested in is honesty, conscientiousness, creativity, independence, resilience. These are not things that as human beings we can pick up easily in a face to face encounter, they require much more structure interaction. So this is a case where we understand the limitation of our instincts. Our instincts are great on these kinds of superficial physical things and they’re not so good when it comes to sense of these deeper character traits and businesses need to pay heed.
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New Website
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
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Global Leaders Network is delighted to welcome you to our new website.
Our vision is to provide anyone interested in leadership or leading people with contemporary information that helps develop and mobilse them to action.
We have asked our incredible array of speakers including John P. Kotter (Harvard), Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard), Manfred Kets de Vries (INSEAD), Gary Hamel (London Business School), Peter Senge (MIT), and a host of other brilliant minds to contribute regularly so please keep coming back to explore the possibilities.
The site, over the next few weeks, will provide a host of excellent resources including all the latest business books for you to purchase - so if you ever need anything let us be the first to help.
We would also love to hear from you at anytime with your suggestions so please email us at admin@globalleadersnetwork.net
One idea can change the world. Don’t miss out on the incredible information you will receive on this website resource!
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