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2nd August 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl Hope you’re Thriving! A good week for me, with client meetings and working on the research for my new book about onboarding. I’ve now got over 1,000 survey respondents across 8 countries, which for me means it’s now statistically relevant and I’ve been pouring over the data – something I’m enjoying. What’s becoming really Read More...

2nd August 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl Hope you’re Thriving! A good week for me, with client meetings and working on the research for my new book about onboarding. I’ve now got...

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26th July 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “We give each CEO a simple mission – Just run your business as if (1) you own 100% of it, (2) it is the only asset in the world that you and your family have or will ever have; and (3) you can’t sell or merge it for at least a century.” – Warren Buffett Hope you’re Thriving! Integrity > $ Have you ever been part of a situation where a person is hung up over small amounts of money, and in doing so is damaging their integrity Read More...

26th July 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "We give each CEO a simple mission – Just run your business as if (1) you own 100% of it, (2) it is the only asset in the world that you and your family have or will ever have; and (3) you can’t...

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19th July 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “The problem when solved will be simple” – sign on the General Motors research lab wall Hope you’re Thriving! I spent the last week on holiday in the South West of our state, in Albany & Margaret River in particular. Chatting to business owners in the regions, it seems to be bustling, and to quote a few people ‘every day is like the Easter long weekend’ (which is the busiest time of the year). There was however some concern Read More...

19th July 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “The problem when solved will be simple” - sign on the General Motors research lab wall Hope you’re Thriving! I spent the last week on holiday in the South West of our state, in Albany & Margaret River in particular. Chatting to business...

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12th July 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. you can tell whether a man is wise by his questions” – Naguib Mahfouz Hope you’re Thriving! I’ve had a good week, and one highlight was a full day quarterly planning workshop with a team over Zoom. Now this team are a little, er, ‘old school’ and technology hasn’t really embedded in their business as much as it should have. Needless to say, they were reluctant to run a Read More...

12th July 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. you can tell whether a man is wise by his questions” - Naguib Mahfouz Hope you’re Thriving! I’ve had a good week, and one highlight was a full day quarterly planning workshop...

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5th July 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer Hope you’re Thriving! An interesting week for me this past week, helping a client discover their Core Values, working through a very busy quarterly planning workshop on Zoom and being awarded an Emeritus Coach award from Gravitas Impact. Also, I’ve been working on my next book for around a month now, which is still a very long way Read More...

5th July 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer Hope you’re Thriving! An interesting week for me this past week, helping a client discover their Core Values, working through a very busy...

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28th June 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway Hope you’re Thriving! Don’t judge a cover by its book.Perth, the city I live in is the most isolated capital city on a continent in the world. In this pandemic, there have been many cities which have had their normal advantages work against them such as population size, density and number of visitors. But Read More...

28th June 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway Hope you’re Thriving! Don’t judge a cover by its book.Perth, the city I live in is the most isolated capital city...

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21st June 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “We don’t get paid for time, we get paid by value” Jim Rohn Hope you’re Thriving! It’s been a busy week ‘round these parts!This week I was a keynote speaker at the Gravitas Leadership summit presenting via Zoom the key concepts from Made to Thrive, and digging deeper into one of the subjects, the Employee Promise. And here’s the key – it’s got to align with your strategy, and be like a magnet for your ideal employees. Read More...

21st June 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "We don't get paid for time, we get paid by value" Jim Rohn Hope you’re Thriving! It’s been a busy week ‘round these parts!This week I was a keynote speaker at the Gravitas Leadership summit presenting via Zoom the key concepts from Made...

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14th June 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” Socrates Hope you’re Thriving! It’s been an exciting week for me as I ran the first in-person strategic planning workshop in months this week. Zoom’s been great, but gee actually being together with a leadership team for 2 days was something I appreciated more than I thought I would. Coming from a Read More...

14th June 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers." Socrates Hope you’re Thriving! It’s been an exciting week for me as I ran the first in-person strategic planning workshop in months this week....

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7th June 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “If you want to be a clear thinker, you cannot pay attention to politics. It will destroy your ability to think.” – Naval Ravikant Hope you’re Thriving! So imagine you are one of the biggest beneficiaries of the pandemic. Imagine that your revenues have sky-rocketed in the past 90 days, and now, it’s time to get on the earnings call with investors and finally release the amazing news.But, there is one little thing that your Read More...

7th June 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “If you want to be a clear thinker, you cannot pay attention to politics. It will destroy your ability to think.” - Naval Ravikant Hope you're Thriving! So imagine you are one of the biggest beneficiaries of the pandemic. Imagine that your revenues...

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31st May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realised. Make big plans … deep into the future. Aim high in hope and work. Have faith, remembering that a noble plan, once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will still be a living thing.” Daniel Burnham Hope you’re Thriving! Fantastic news this week where I live with the Government moving to Phase 3 Read More...

31st May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realised. Make big plans ... deep into the future. Aim high in hope and work. Have faith, remembering that a noble plan, once recorded will...

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24th May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “All progress depends on the unreasonable man” – George Bernard Shaw Hope you’re Thriving! It’s one week until winter here and it’s starting to get colder, leaves have started falling and winter storms are starting up. But hey, it’s going to be 27c today! It’s said that people talk about the weather when there isn’t anything meaningful to talk about, but today there is quite a bit. Looking at this chart from USC Dornsife, on Read More...

24th May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “All progress depends on the unreasonable man” - George Bernard Shaw Hope you’re Thriving! It’s one week until winter here and it’s starting to get colder, leaves have started falling and winter storms are starting up. But hey, it’s going to be 27c...

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17th May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “There’s never a good sale for Nieman-Marcus unless it’s a good buy for the customer. “ Herbert Marcus 1926 Hope you’re Thriving! Do you know the feeling when you complete a large project? It’s a pretty good feeling, right? Well, I’ve got that feeling today. After 3 months work, I’ve launched the video course for my book Made to Thrive. In the broad scheme of things that’s important to me because I now have Read More...

17th May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “There’s never a good sale for Nieman-Marcus unless it’s a good buy for the customer. “ Herbert Marcus 1926 Hope you're Thriving! Do you know the feeling when you complete a large project? It's a pretty good feeling, right? Well, I've got that...

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10th May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “I’ve always had this view that success is not a straight line up. If you read the stories of successful people, almost every successful person has had to deal with some degree of hardship, whether that hardship is personal hardship, health-related hardship, or a business issue.” — Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up Hope you’re Thriving! I’ve had a busy week with 3 full-day strategic planning workshops via zoom and meetings on the Read More...

10th May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "I’ve always had this view that success is not a straight line up. If you read the stories of successful people, almost every successful person has had to deal with some degree of hardship, whether that hardship is personal hardship, health-related hardship, or...

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3rd May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin Hope you’re Thriving! Well here in Perth kids went back to school last week which felt like a meaningful milestone in the recovery. At times, I find that when I have a moment to reflect, I find that the entire COVID situation is a little surreal. I mean to think that we are Read More...

3rd May 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin Hope you're Thriving! Well here in Perth kids went back to school last week which...

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26th April 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” — Winston Churchill Hope you’re Thriving! I’ve been over 5 weeks in lockdown now, and I’ve found myself having a newfound appreciation and empathy for many people in our community such as school teachers, nurses, carers and doctors, who are risking their own health to look after others. That’s even before we consider the Read More...

26th April 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” — Winston Churchill Hope you’re Thriving! I’ve been over 5 weeks in lockdown now, and I’ve found myself having...

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19th April 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic” – Peter Drucker Hope you’re Thriving! In January 1946 Malcolm Little was arrested as he tried to pawn a watch he’d stolen, and back at his apartment, the police found furs, jewellery, an arsenal of guns and his burglary tools. He was subsequently sentenced to ten years in prison. As he served his sentence unlike Read More...

19th April 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday's logic" - Peter Drucker Hope you’re Thriving! In January 1946 Malcolm Little was arrested as he tried to pawn a watch he’d stolen, and back at...

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12th April 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” – Albert Bartlett Hope you’re Thriving! What now? People all over the world are beginning to get used to the situation they are in. The social distancing, working from home (if working at all), the quarantine, the limited supply of some goods and their minds have dealt with the situation, and are now thinking what happens Read More...

12th April 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Albert Bartlett Hope you're Thriving! What now? People all over the world are beginning to get used to the situation they are in. The social distancing, working...

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4th April 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “You’ll have bad times, but they’ll only wake you up to the good times you weren’t paying attention to.” Dr. Sean Maguire (Robyn Williams in Good Will Hunting) Hope you’re Thriving! It’s been my observation that in the past week or so that the general mood has changed from one of shock and awe to one of accepting the situation, to facing the reality, or certainly where I live. For me, this past week has been quite Read More...

4th April 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "You’ll have bad times, but they’ll only wake you up to the good times you weren’t paying attention to." Dr. Sean Maguire (Robyn Williams in Good Will Hunting) Hope you're Thriving! It's been my observation that in the past week or so that...

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29th March 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “Culture is who you are on your worst days. When your culture is that of a caring family, everyone pulls together in a crisis. True leadership is demonstrated in tough times, not good times.” Bob Chapman Hope you’re surviving!(And can still dream of Thriving!) The word ‘triage’ comes from 1792 when Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, Surgeon in Chief to Napoleon’s Imperial Guard devised an effective process of sorting Read More...

29th March 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "Culture is who you are on your worst days. When your culture is that of a caring family, everyone pulls together in a crisis. True leadership is demonstrated in tough times, not good times." Bob Chapman Hope you're surviving!(And can still dream of...

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22nd March 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”–Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hope you’re surviving!(And can still dream of Thriving!) Well, it all got a bit too real this last week when our family commenced controlled social distancing (ie lockdown). A joke from Jimmy Fallon who is also under self-imposed, self-quarantine was quite striking when he said they were on day 86 of lockdown, whereby Read More...

22nd March 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hope you're surviving!(And can still dream of Thriving!) Well, it all got a bit too real this last week when our family commenced controlled social distancing (ie lockdown)....

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15th March 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights–then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization is forever upward.” Dr. Endicott Peabody Hope you’re Thriving! “I’m not an epidemiologist but…” If ever you’ve wondered just how much the world can change in a week, this could be the Read More...

15th March 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter "Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization is forever upward." Dr. Endicott Peabody Hope...

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8th March 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “When someone congratulates me on a good quarter they don’t realize those results were fully baked about three years ago.” – Jeff Bezos Hope you’re Thriving! I’ve had a quieter week where I’ve been recording an online course for my book Made to Thrive which explains the 5 roles of a leader. It’s still far from half complete, but it’s coming along well and gives me the opportunity to dig deeper into the Read More...

8th March 2020 Evolution Partners Newsletter “When someone congratulates me on a good quarter they don’t realize those results were fully baked about three years ago.” - Jeff Bezos Hope you're Thriving! I've had a quieter week where I've been recording an online course for my book Made to...

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