If you had the opportunity to pick the brains of 8 of the smartest people in leadership today, would you do it? How much would you be prepared to pay?
Plenty of people took the opportunity recently to attend the ‘World Business Forum’ in Sydney, held May 28 – 29, 2014. They were treated to leading edge thinking and ideas that challenge the status quo and call leaders to think in different ways.
Thanks to one of the major sponsors, NAB, you are able to get the benefit of this forum through a synopsis of each presentation which captures the major points. These are a great read; quick, punchy and challenging.
The main presenters and their areas of interest are (click on the presenter to read more):
- George Kohlreiser – Lessons in leadership from hostage negotiation
- Randi Zuckerberg – Developments in technology
- Ram Charan – Good ideas with no execution ends in no results
- Gary Hamel – Change management
- Kevin Roberts – Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) thinking
- Andreas Weigend – How people are making purchasing and lifestyle decisions
- Michael Porter – Opportunities if we are willing to recalibrate thinking and strategy
- Lyn Heward – The 7 doors to enhance creativity, motivate high performance and foster innovation
While there is something for everyone in this mixed bag of leading thinkers, my personal favourite is Ram Charan’s 7 steps to excellent execution – the way to actually get things done.
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