Leadership Articles
Opportunity or Obstacle
Do you tend to see events as opportunities or obstacles? How we view this is a complex result of deep mental programming based on our preferences, context, past experiences and…
Summit Experiences
Some of you may be aware that I organised an all-disabled mountaineers’ climb on Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania very recently. Our team of four hailed from Scotland, Wales, Australia and…
Four Ways To Better Teams ( or Why Teambuilding is a Dirty Word )
Why is “teambuilding” often getting a ‘ ho-hum’ reaction by organisations and their staff? Two words: Ineffective results. The reasons for an ineffective teambuilding exercise can be caused by several…
Divine Design and Nano-technology
For some years after my long hospitalisation in 1998, I used to give thanks daily to God for being well and alive. But like many, I suspect, I began to…
Focus: Getting Better At it
A couple of weeks ago, I encountered a diverse group of 30 professionals from the American Association of Singapore and the Connexions networking group. They had signed up for the…
Are We More Resilient
Sunday, May 25th marked five years to the day that the 1st Singapore Everest Expedition succeeded in scaling the Big Hill. At 830am Singapore time, Edwin Siew stood on the…
Leadership Distilled
The one thing left unspoken in weeks of unrelieved mass media reports on that Gulf war and the Severs Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS ) outbreak was the issue of leadership…
Time to Recharge Your Batteries
February 2003 proved to be the busiest month in my life on record. In its 28 days, I made nine corporate and public presentations. Two were at the Asia Pacific…
Toughing It Out
In 1982, Steve Callahan was shipwrecked when his sailing boat was struck by something and sank. He was cast adrift in a leaky , inflatable life-raft He was out of…