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The New Psychology of Leadership

The conventional approach to leadership in Australia has failed to reliably produce loyal, engaged and productive followers in both corporate and public life. This breakfast workshop introduces the New Psychology of Leadership - a scientific explanation of leadership that, whilst radically challenging conventional views of leadership, is easily understood, supported by research and readily translated into practical [...]

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Insight & Influence Blog – Resurrection

There has been something of a hiatus in our postings on this blog. Basically we got too caught up in the doing of what we do and neglected the talking about and promotion of what we do. We aim to correct this over the next few months. As you will see in our imminent next [...]

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The Great Leadership Debate – Canberra

If you are interested in leadership development and coaching and live in Canberra, you should get along to Unit 8 / 9 Sydney Ave, Barton to listen to another iteration of the Great Leadership Debate where Randal gets to argue with an organisational psychologist about whether leaders are born or made. Previously he sparred with [...]

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Leader Training – a waste of time and money

I refered to our latest Leading Change Newsletter “Leader Training – A waste of time and money” in a previous blog entry. I thought I’d leave a link here on the blog to make it easy to download. Cheers David

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Leadership Debate

One of my roles outside of Insight & Influence is as the NSW Co-ordinator of the Australian Psychological Society’s Interest Group in Coaching Psychology (IGCP). In this capacity, I organised a public debate between Randal (my partner here at I&I) and Peter Zarris, the National Convenor of IGCP on leadership. The publicity blurb for the [...]

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My favourite authors

A good place to start in understanding someone is to check out their library. What you read often becomes what you think. At the very least it is part of the web of influence on one’s thinking and approach to their work. So I thought I’d start my blog proper by listing some of my [...]

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