by Pete O'Keeffe | Feb 14, 2024 | Blog, Building and leading a team, Leadership
(1) If you’re a leader, listen to your followers. The kind of leaders people follow do more than conduct business in their interactions; they take time to get a feel for who they are as a person. Philip Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield, believed, ‘Many a... 
by Pete O'Keeffe | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog, Leadership, Tips & Ideas
Bureaucracy gone silly I am never ceased to be amazed at the bureaucracy that stymies many initiatives in the UK. Coming from the Antipodean Islands of New Zealand, where we have a pretty pragmatic approach to getting ‘things done,’ I just continually... 
by Pete O'Keeffe | Jan 30, 2024 | Building and leading a team, Leadership, Tips & Ideas
HAVING A DREAM AND A VISION Picture yourself beside a sparkling cascading river in, in some of the most sweltering conditions you’ve every been in. As you wipe the sweat from your face you keep fiddling with the metal bowel in your hand, as the continuous movement of... 
by Pete O'Keeffe | Nov 21, 2023 | Blog, Leadership
Avoid these Management Trap Industry Week recently posted an article about some of the common traps that leaders fall into. Leaders have 2 main jobs: Direction + Delegation. You don’t “do the work” anymore – you need to “get things done through others.” You... 
by Pete O'Keeffe | Oct 9, 2023 | Leadership
Ben my son has progressed through the round robin stages of the RWC and has now been favoured with refereeing the quarter final, South Africa v France. And it made me think, What do top Rugby Referees and top Business Leaders do Differently from the rest of us?... by Pete O'Keeffe | Sep 28, 2023 | Blog, Leadership
HABITS AS A RUGBY REFEREE My son Ben is one of the 12 referees involved in the RWC in France. He recently controlled the Ireland v South Africa match and by all accounts reading what the pundits say – he had a pretty good performance. It wasn’t always like that... 