by John Drury | Jan 20, 2012 | Leadership Articles
How to Lead and Motivate Volunteers For many years I was the CEO of a large not-for-profit organisation in a community just west of Sydney, Australia. Without hesitation I would say the key to the effectiveness of this organisation was the enormous contribution of...
by John Drury | Jan 16, 2012 | Leadership Articles
Momentum is Important to Any Organisation Momentum is called by some ‘The BIG MO’ and should be treasured like gold by any leader. With momentum everything looks and feels better than it really is, and without it everything looks and feels much worse than it really...
by John Drury | Dec 22, 2011 | Leadership Articles, Self Leadership
Starting out in Business I love to encourage younger people who have a dream to establish their own business. In my local area we have the Gen YQ Penrith Networking Group set up for business entrepreneurs and professionals under 35. This is a great initiative and is...
by John Drury | Dec 16, 2011 | Leadership Articles
The People Factor Studies have indicated that 15% of job success is based on technical competence while 85% is related to interpersonal skills. There is no doubt that the people factor is one of the most important issues to be dealt with as we strive for...
by John Drury | Oct 21, 2011 | Leadership Articles, Self Leadership
I know from bitter experience in my own leadership journey where after many years of extremely fruitful leadership I became so busy responding to the demands of people and stretching for even greater goals that I stopped asking myself these questions. The results were...
by John Drury | Sep 15, 2011 | Leadership Articles, Self Leadership
The truth is that the busier you get the more you need to plan carefully (and communicate clearly, especially to close associates) as it gets easier to lose sight of where you are headed. As noted in my article How to Be Organized there is a huge discrepancy between...
