Articles
Balance Curve publishes articles designed to support and assist our clients. Some of our articles are found below and on LinkedIn.
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How do you shape a successful Team Culture?
This is the fifth in a series of short articles I am writing to assist leaders create and sustain high performing teams. Whether you are a CEO or a Project Team Leader, creating and maintaining a great team is a constant challenge. These articles are designed to help. Today we focus on shaping a successful…
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How do you create a “psychologically safe” team?
This is the fourth in a series of short articles I am writing to assist leaders create and sustain high performing teams. Whether you are a CEO or a Project Team Leader, creating and maintaining a great team is a constant challenge. These articles are designed to help. When people don’t feel “psychologically safe”, team…
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What’s your Team Purpose? You need to make this clear!
This is the third in a series of short articles I am writing to assist leaders create and sustain high performing teams. Whether you are a CEO or a Project Team Leader, creating and maintaining a great team is a constant challenge. These articles are designed to help. The focus today is on clarifying Team…
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Creating Effective Teams – Negotiating the criteria for success
Creating Effective Teams – If you don’t negotiate the criteria for success, your team is in trouble. This is the first of a series of short articles I am writing to assist leaders create and sustain high performing teams. Whether you are a CEO or a Project Team Leader, creating and maintaining a great team…
Read MoreLeadership and the constant danger of Overconfidence
A Shelley Gare article in the SMH Good Weekend (25 May 2019) throws doubt on the success of the decades of academic and consultancy effort intended to improve leadership skills in business. Titled “How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world” Gare writes that the world has become so obsessed with money and so…
Read MoreBeing “Fair”. Can You Be Fair to Everyone?
In a recent blog I talked about relationship trust and how it was critical to a leader’s credibility. Important to building this trust is making decisions that are seen as “fair to everyone” – something easier said than done. How can a leader make decisions that everyone involved see as fair? In business, team leaders…
Read MoreGenius and Grit
This post was written with my colleague Dr John Waters. Thomas Edison’s famous saying that “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration” reflected his belief that creativity is more a product of work than it is of the imagination. The truth of his aphorism is demonstrated in all forms of creativity, whether in science, in art…
Read MoreBeing a Courageous Leader – Some questions you should ask your Team
When I ask people about the attributes of leaders they most admire the word “courage” is often mentioned. And when I ask them what courageous leaders do, they talk about actions such as making unpopular decisions, standing up for what they believe in, calling out poor behaviour, putting themselves on the line by taking calculated…
Read MoreApplying the No Dickheads Rule
It’s commonly accepted that having “Dickheads” or “Assholes” in an organisation isn’t good for morale or performance. Many organisations specifically include an “ND” Rule in their Values and Behaviours. The Sydney Swans (my AFL team) have famously incorporated the Rule as part of their winning culture and this has been replicated throughout the sporting community.…
Read MoreNice Guys v. Jerks – Who wins?
There is an interesting academic debate going on in the US about whether it is “nice guys” or “jerks” who finish on top in business. This is an old debate that seems to have been sparked by Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs that, in many people’s opinion, painted him as an asshole (using the US…
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