Leadership at the summit

Chris Warner has cheated the death zone, where oxygen is thin and the weather brutal, to stand atop the world's two highest peaks, Mount Everest and K2 - the only Marylander to have done so. The Annapolis resident and certified Alpine guide owns Earth Treks, with climbing gyms in Columbia, Timonium and Rockville, and leads expeditions of business school students on team-building outings to the high peaks of South America and Africa. With Don Schmincke, a Maryland-based business consultant, Warner has written a book, "High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success."

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The Balance Needed to Lead Change

Kerry A. Bunker and Michael Wakefield shed some light on why leading change is so difficult...

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Books offer advice on harnessing creativity

Richard Pachter from the Miami Herald has recently reviewed a few book releases on harnessing creativity that could be of interst to you, it's looking at things from a USA point of view though has some relevance to Australian's as well... How do we get out of this mess we're in? The United States doesn't manufacture very much any more, nor is agriculture likely to re-emerge as the driving force of our economy. American popular culture is still dominant throughout the world, but many of the movie studios and remaining record companies are foreign-owned. Ditto with industries like brewing (Miller, Anheuser-Busch), pharmaceuticals and many more.

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Is Australian management creative and innovative? - Full report

The Creative Leadership Forum's full report from their research on 'Is Australian management creative and innovative?' can be downloaded here.

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Ralph Kerle appointed chairman of AGSM roundtable

AGSM Executive Programs, Australia's leading business school, has appointed Ralph Kerle as Chair of their inaugural Roundtable initiative on Leadership, Creativity and Innovation. Building on the research Ralph has produced on 'Is Australian management creative and innovative?' the Roundtable, scheduled for February 2009, will draw together leaders from Australian business, education, enterprise and government with the express purpose of exploring and scoping the future needs for executive management and development nationally in the area of leadership, creativity and innovation.

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