NOW – Current focus

Updated 27^th April 2018

WORK/CONSULTING

• Future of Work Research – conducting research into the lack of cultural innovation in New Zealand and global organisations.
• Future of Work Consulting – Helping organisations to address employee engagement and create environments of ownership by employees through:
  • Trust and Radical Transparency
  • Reduced Control
  • Self Management and Distributed Leadership
  • Extreme Stakeholder Alignment
  • Innovation Creativity and Experimentation Culture.

Building teams so strong you don’t know who the boss is

• Agile Marketing – Helping companies to continuously iterate and improve their marketing with daily scrums and weekly retrospectives for: ATL ( Radio, Print, Social Media and TV), print, web and engaging social media refinement. Balancing regulatory requirements, budgets and capability with customer-centric content marketing and lead generation.
• Agile Sales – Continuously improving business development with weekly scrums and retrospectives around knowledge transfer, scripts, and performance.
• Strategy – Realigning business strategy, re-evaluating “the why”, developing ownership in teams, reviewing procedures and protocols. Coaching yes, all that it entails from strategy to execution.

Constantly iterating for sustainable growth

PROJECTS

DIY wannabe

• • Creating a deck, and landscaping our house.
  • Placing 12 tonnes of shells and 100 plants.
  • Sewing curtains.
  • Retaining wall and seat.
  • Raised beds.
  • Custom garden shed.
  • Epic huge kids swing.
  • Pull-up rings.
  • Shade sail.

BACK OF MIND

• • Catalyst for Teal and Future of Work initiatives in New Zealand.
  • Wanting to talk to developers about BauGruppe home ownership in New Zealand (a guide to BauGruppe PDF) and micro, multi-unit developments.
  • Thinking through how to start a school and residential care center for kids with Autism. Here are my thoughts/plans so far: oasis.school. I need help with: funding, governance, security and succession planning. The goal is to create a space where our Autistic son Oli (and other children who cannot care for themselves) can be cared for THRIVE when we pass.

READING

• • Reinventing Organisations
  • Never Eat Alone
  • In Praise of Shadows
  • Makers The New Industrial Revolution
  • Hooked
  • The Obstacle Is The Way
  • Smartcuts
  • Way of the Peaceful Warrior
  • Nice Companies Finish First
  • Let My People go Surfing
  • Ego Is The Enemy
  • Perennial Seller
  • Lean Startup
  • Bold
  • Crush it
  • Extreme Ownership
  • Hacking Growth
  • Holacracy – The revolutionary management system that abolishes hierarchy
  • The Side Project Report
  • Tools of Titans
  • Sun Tzu – The Art Of War For Executives
  • Building Better Brands
  • Presentation Genius
  • Will It Fly
  • The Naked CEO
  • Good to Great
  • Working Out Loud
  • The Gig Economy
  • What the Fat
  • What the Fast

BODY

With Oli (our son) often reluctant walk or needing a lift to get places, I am upping my arm & core strength to carry him.

• • Daily
    • 60 push ups
  • Weekend
    • 600 sit ups, 30kg bag.
  • Preparing for The Hillary Ultra-Marathon with Wednesday and Sunday runs.
    • Current PB.
      • 5k 23:41
      • 10k 53:55
      • Half marathon in 1:59:04
      • Auckland marathon 4:53:08.
  • Refining my LCHF diet. Experimenting with various Kimchee recipes, Kombucha, Russian sauerkraut and fasting (one large meal weekdays, two on weekends).

HEART

• Constant focus – my wife Tamara.