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CEO Training on Leadership & Business

Starnext is a training & support enterprise committed to unearthing and developing tomorrow’s leadership and business ‘STARS’!! In this brief video I share a little about Starnext, SuccessionLeadershipChange.com & why we do what we do.

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3 Lessons Small Enterprise Can Teach a Corporate

As we have explored recently, much has been written on the topic of why corporate execs and CEOs do not transition well to smaller enterprises… doesn’t it make you wonder then, what smaller enterprises could teach their larger cousins about … Continue reading

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The Impact of Poor Strategy

The impact of following the wrong strategy can be dire – particularly when you are following the wrong strategy with enthusiasm. I hope you enjoy this video. Its one of the best illustrations I have seen of the importance of … Continue reading

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The Business Owner Test – Are YOU Limiting Growth?

Its often observed that business owners often get in the way of their own objectives – in this video I share a simple test that is a strong indicator of whether you do!

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Urgency – Why Corporate Leaders Often Fail in Smaller Companies

The transition from a large enterprise to a smaller one has been blamed for many career and corporate failures – but what is it that seems to cause this? In my experience with both management succession and also with turnaround, … Continue reading

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Getting A Leader’s Perspective

For both leaders and managers, the benefits of seeing the “bigger picture” are not debated: indeed, obtaining a bigger picture perspective is central! Why is it then, that actually stepping away and achieving sufficient distance to ‘get’ a bigger picture … Continue reading

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How Leaders Get Over Failure

Failure and set-backs are a natural part of life. What leaders know, however, is that life is 1% what happens to you and 99% what you then do about it! But just what do leaders do when confronted by set-backs … Continue reading

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Succession – Herald Sun Interview With Stuart Hayes

On 29 June, the Herald Sun’s Leadership column featured the successful succession program implemented by my client WASCA. The interesting element of the WASCA story, as you can read below, is that the succession program also involved a shift of … Continue reading

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Business Succession – Leadership Lessons From Nature

Let us step back from the commercial world momentarily and take a look at succession from an Ecological perspective. In Ecological science, succession is a fundamental concept that refers to the* “more or less predictable and orderly changes” that occur … Continue reading

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Exit Plan – an Alternate View

Let us consider, 2 very different definitions of an Exit Plan; one being the common definition and the other being the Stuart Hayes alternate definition:

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