As we move to the close of another year, (they seem to go faster and faster as I get older) its a good time to...
The Business Leader of the Future – do you have what it takes?
World strategy guru and author, Gary Hamel in his best-selling book “The Future of Management” points out that traditional ways of managing a business are...
Qualities our Leaders Must Have
Skills your Business Leaders must have In order to achieve organisational goals, effective leadership is essential. But how does one become effective? What are the...
Growing Australian Horticulture
Our horticulture industries are under increasing pressure - cost-price squeeze, imports, Mother Nature's impacts, increasing complexity and regulation, urban encroachment and business succession to name...
Leading with a Challenge
“People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.” – Umberto Eco I recently finished reading an interesting book called The Challenger Sale,...
How to Deal with the Leadership Shift
Businesses are under increasing stress as markets are increasingly volatile, clients are more demanding, talent is scarcer and change occurs in faster and shorter cycles....
The Leadership Dilemma – Management or Leadership?
Today, businesses are run by very competent people who are not necessarily Ghandi or Nelson Mandela but who seem to drive their businesses to success,...
How Great Leaders Inspire Action (an insight by Simon Sinek)
We featured this excellent TED Talk video from Simon Sinek in the first issue of the Horticulture – Next Generation Newsletter. This video explores a...
Confront the Brutal Facts for Growth
It never ceases to amaze us that there is such a great diversity of business opportunities in our region. The key to the creation of...
Enlightened Leaders Can Drive Change
Every business in today's environment is confronted with change. The change is coming in many different forms from many different directions. There are very few...