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Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?

by: Linda A Hill, (Harvard Business Review, January 2008).

Collective leadership with power symmetry: Lessons from Aboriginal prehistory

by: Karl-Erik Sveiby, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland

Learning To Live With Complexity

by: Gökce Sargut and Rita Gunther McGrath

Technique Critical Evaluation

Sources: Ivan Nurick, 1998; Dale Carnegie, 2003; Lawry Scandar, 1999; Leo D’Angelo Fisher, 2007; Fiona Smith, 2000

Buck Up

by Amy Gallo, (Australian Financial Review: June1, 2011)

Baby I've got your number

by Fiona Smith, (Work Space, AFR May 17, 2011).

Cognitive Fitness

by Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts - (Harvard Business Review, October, 2007).

Managing Away Bad Habits

by James Waldroop & Timothy Butler - (Harvard Business Review, Sept./Oct., 2000).

Building Competencies for Integrating Change Management and Project Management

by Joe Rafter & Bill Synnot, May 2011.

What’s Your Personal Social Media Strategy?

Soumitra Dutta, HBR November 2010

Stress-Test Your Strategy - The 7 Questions to Ask

Robert Simons (Harvard Business Review, November 2010)

Change for Change's Sake

By Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam and Ranjay Gulati - HBR: June 2010

Power Play

Jeffrey Pfeffer ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) is the Thomas D.Dee II Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in California. His latest book, Power: Who Some People Have it – And Others Don’t, is forthcoming from HarperCollins.

Y - there’s more to it than profit

Article from the Australian Financial Review (21st July 2010)

Corporate Change Management

Article for the Institute of Accountants Fiji Journal by Abraham Simpson & Bill Synnot (2010)

Health and Stress Management in Business

by Dr John Tickell (2001), Health Consultant

Rebuilding Employee Engagement

by Mick Hay (2010), Managing Director of Rimfire Resources

Creating strategy by design

by James Carlopio (2009, Design principles and practices: An international journal, 3(5), 155-166) Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal

SCARF

by David rock, CEO, Results Coaching Systems international, First published in the NeuroLeadership Journal Issue One 2008

Future Forecast

by Catherine McCormack (Virgin Blue Magazine, November 2009)

Happiness paves the road to prosperity

by Martyn Newman (AFR, September 8, 2009, p58)

Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of Innovation

by Ram Nidumolu, C.K. Prahalad, and M.R. Rangaswami (Harvard Business Review, September 2009, pp 57-64)

Change Management BES September 2009

Presentation to Business Executive Suites luncheon - September 2009

Change Management in volative times The Bureaux July 2009

Presentation to Bureaux (Melbourne & Sydney) - July 2009

Definitely Drucker

By Roberts Spillane (AFRBoss Magazine, March 2008 p32 - 36)

The 10 Trends You Have to Watch

from Harvard Business Review (July - August, 2009, p 55 to 60)
and authored by Eric Beinhocker, Ian Davis, and Lenny Mendonca.

Basic Instincts

Article by Andrew O'Keeffe (AFRBoss Magazine - June 2009).

Executive coaching - Is it worthwhile

June/July 2008, (Co-authored with Peter Akers), Council Leader, LGA (QLD)

Most people are not against change, but the way it is handled (co-authored with Rosie Fitzgerard)

Director Books, Feb 08, ACID Publications

Leading Change & Organisation Transitions

University of South Australia, August 30 2007 (Power Point)

How to handle change in your organisation

Society of Business Communicators (QLD), May 2007 (Power Point)

Change Management

RCB Regional Conference, ACMA, May 30 2007 (Power Point)

Peak performance, innovative, agile resilient and robust organisations

Bill Synnot, 2007, Successful Organisational Transition, BSA

Re-vitalisation your S-curve before it is too late!!!!!!!!!!

Invest Inland Newsletter, August 2004

Mind mapping-Now, I'd like to see that!!!!!!

Invest Inland Newsletter, July 2004

Good storytelling captures the audience more than facts and figures!!!

Invest Inland Newsletter, June 2004

I've been everywhere.......with my eyes closed!!!!!!!!

Invest Inland Newsletter, May 2004

Oh What a Challenge - Get Sigrid!!!

Invest Inland Newsletter, April 2004

Consultant's Perspective on Joint Ventures

Bill Synnot, 2004, Successful Organisational Transition

The Talent Conundrum - to Grow or Buy

As part of Local Government Association of Queensland HR Conference entitled "...workforce planning - vital for ensuring relevant, contemporary and capable workforce..." (Power Point)

Major Global Influences

Major Global Influences at the Start of the New Millennium, (1998), Not for Profit Seminar, Aust. Soc. of Cert. Practising Accountants (Qld)

Handle Cultural Diversity

Handle Cultural/Gender Diversity, (1998), Management Accounting Seminar, Aust. Soc. of Cert. Practising Accountants (Qld)

Strategic Planning - Is it worthwhile?

Bill Synnot, 1996, Australian & International Management Specialists

Developing A Vision - Reality or Hyper Reality?

Bill Synnot, 1996, Australian & International Management Specialists (Agriculture)

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