Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 19th September issue here.

What’s in it:

• Matt Church: Lightning talks and the power of a short speech
• Practice of Wisdom Psychology: Stardust!
• differencemakers community blog: Are you providing what people want or are you trying to provide what you think people need?
• Ross Clennett: Who are your stakeholders and what do they REALLY want?
• Gihan Perera: Google Doesn’t Care About the Keywords Tag!
• Gary Ryan: Webinar Recirding – Leadership Insights Series Interview With Michael Lewis
• Lifelong Fitness: Need new underwear?
• Dr Jenny Brockis: 6 great tips from @MerylDavids…
• Dr Jenny Brockis: Can eating an apple reduce your risk of stroke?
• The Money Guide: Why are only 5% of Aussies millionaires?
• Glenn Cardwell: Chewing gum
• Paper Free UK Boardrooms
• differencemakers community blog: My 5 personal and lasting lessons from 9/11
• Gihan Perera: Follow Friday: Michael Neaylon, MCME
• Gihan Perera: Webinars That Sell: The Internet Business Revolution
• Blog: Naturally You
• Lifelong Fitness: Chocolate as good as exercise – I don’t believe it!
• differencemakers community blog: Do you still doubt the business case for sustainability or are you leading the way?
• Dr Jenny Brockis: It’s RUOK day. Something we sh…
• differencemakers community blog: Practical Decision Making: Decision Trees
• Gary Ryan: Sam Stosur Achieves Success Through Lessons From Surfing
• Gary Ryan: Building High Performance Business Relationships Interview With Tony Lendrum Webinar Recording
• Dr Jenny Brockis: Could a sniff of insulin preserve memory?
• Gihan Perera: Writing a Book Together
• The Almond Effect: Daniel Goleman describes The Almond Effect
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: How do you grow your skills?

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 12th September issue here.

What’s in it:

• differencemakers community blog: You will never know until you have a red-hot go
• Bill Jennings from Time & Space: The Tenth Anniversary of September 12
• Ross Clennett: 22 signs you are slowly going the way of the dinosaurs
• Ann Rolfe’s Mentoring Works Blog: Mentoring – Online in Real Time
• Gihan Perera: Webinars That Sell: Free Webinar on Thursday
• Dr Jenny Brockis: Do you know how to build your …
• Gary Ryan: Memories of 911 – a personal connection
• differencemakers community blog: What we all really want
• differencemakers community blog: Personal Branding Is All About You
• Ann Rolfe’s Mentoring Works Blog: Visit Mentoring Works at Brisbane Expo and Receive “A Minute On Mentoring” Audio-Visual Series
• Gihan Perera: Follow Friday: Max Hitchins
• The Money Guide: How much super you need to fund a comfy lifestyle
• There’s an I in TEAM: Knowing What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do
• Gary Ryan: Which Business Relationships If Improved Would Enhance Your Performance?
• Gihan Perera: Google knows that birds of a feather flock together
• differencemakers community blog: 13 key reasons why most change programs fail
• Alice Springs. Great place for a sensational conference.
• Gihan Perera: Are they competitors or collaborators?
• differencemakers community blog: What talents are you yet to unearth and share with the world?
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: The blooming bell curve
• differencemakers community blog: Decision making: risk, utility and probability
• Matt Church: Practice Cluster Strategies
• Gihan Perera: Who Else Do Your Customers Need?
• Ross Clennett: The ‘gravity of success’ prevents innovation: Summary of the 2011 RCSA Conference
• differencemakers community blog: Gap 5 – The Perceived Service-Quality Gap
• Recharge Blog: Financial literacy: knowing what you know

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 29th August issue here.

What’s in it:

• Matt Church: The Million Dollar Expert’s Revenue Model
• differencemakers community blog: Eliminating show from your leadership and adding more value
• Gary Ryan: When sport is more than sport – The Peace Team IC11
• Ross Clennett: Sourcers are geeks, and other observations from the 2011 ATC Sourcevent
• Donna Hanson’s Blog: 3 Things My Mum Taught Me About Email – Lesson 2
• Gihan Perera: Social Media Forum: Free Webinar on Wednesday
• Dr Jenny Brockis: Fish oil supplements: do they really help our brain?
• differencemakers community blog: Being comfortable and uncomfortable in our own skin – a thank you to Steve Jobs
• The Money Guide: Ruth Ostrow’s tip on how to discover what matters
• Donna Hanson’s Blog: 3 Things My Mum Taught Me About Email – Lesson 1
• differencemakers community blog: Change is evolution and revolution
• Gihan Perera: Follow Friday: Trusted Authority Live
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Recycling at work
• Donna Hanson’s Blog: On-Line Grocery Shopping
• Gary Ryan: Honesty Does Pay!
• differencemakers community blog: Stop Chasing Traffic and Start Looking for Customers
• Ross Clennett: New Kid Arrives on the Unbundled Recruitment Block
• Gihan Perera: Passive Income vs Recurring Income
• Dr Jenny Brockis: High Cholesterol? Diet Low In …
• differencemakers community blog: 11 Key Leadership Attributes for Restaurant Managers
• The Money Guide: A great 21st birthday gift
• The Almond Effect: I remember it like it happened yesterday…but you probably don’t!
• differencemakers community blog: An Entrepreneurs Insights into Family Office Data Base Trends
• Blooming Minds Blog: World Suicide Prevention Day – 10th September 2011
• Gihan Perera: The Essential Components of an E-Mail Newsletter: Free Webinar Next Week
• There’s an I in TEAM: Plan your brainstorming
• Gihan Perera: Alan Hargreaves reviews “Fast, Flat and Free”
• Dr Jenny Brockis: Being Brain Fit For Work – htt…
• Gary Ryan: US Postal Service decline highlights why Systems Thinking is critical
• Ross Clennett: Australian and New Zealand recruitment bloggers: A random list
• Matt Church: A shift in information control
• Gihan Perera: Books in the 21st Century (Audio)

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 15th August issue here.

What’s in it:

• differencemakers community blog: Gap 4 – The Market – Communication Gap
• The Value of Perception
• Practice of Wisdom Psychology: Running Your Own Race!
• Ross Clennett: 15 things about the Australian labour market you probably didn’t know: 2011 Update
• Blooming Minds Blog: To Eat or to Heat?
• differencemakers community blog: What is the social purpose of your business?
• Gihan Perera: Free Webinar on Thursday: Evaluating a Niche Product, Service or Market
• Gihan Perera: Robyn Pearce and Gihan Perera on Leveraging Technology and Managing Information Overload
• differencemakers community blog: Changing What’s Normal Conversations
• Lifelong Fitness: Why be fit after 50?
• Glenn Cardwell: When wine meets your teeth
• Glenn Cardwell: The never-ending salt saga
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 9
• differencemakers community blog: Give Away More – It Builds Your Authority
• Gihan Perera: Change Your Mindset To Manage the E-Mail Overload
• There’s an I in TEAM: Performance Reviews: A Necessary Evil?
• Gihan Perera: Webinar Smarts: Free Online Course
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Why a work team is like a garden
• Ross Clennett: Motivating recruiters: Who’s responsible?
• Bill Jennings from Time & Space: Census Night – counting the unpaid hours
• Gary Ryan: Discover the Seven Skills of Dialogue
• Matt Church: Can you feel it?
• Gihan Perera: Thinking Ahead Journal: 8th August 2011

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 8th August issue here.

What’s in it:

• Matt Church: Can you feel it?
• differencemakers community blog: Gardening of the heart and mind
• Gihan Perera: Why Such a Fuss About Google Plus?
• Donna Hanson’s Blog: Stress Management – How it could be costing your organisation thousands in lost productivity
• Blooming Minds Blog: Finally Sleep!
• Dr Jenny Brockis: In order to lead, start with y…
• Dr Jenny Brockis: Hippy, Hippy, Shake, Shake: Does it matter how Shane Warne lost weight?
• Gihan Perera: Help Is Close At Hand
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Natives versus introduced species
• Gihan Perera: Google+ Brings Search and Social Together for Authority Marketing
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 8
• Dr Jenny Brockis: It doesn’t need to be much, ev…
• Gihan Perera: Show The Right Face On-Line
• differencemakers community blog: Human error drives the service – delivery gap
• Matt Church: 5 things we can learn from MasterChef Australia
• Gihan Perera: 25 Ways to Use a Free E-Book or Special Report (Audio)
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 7
• The Money Guide: Budgeting tip: Medical costs
• differencemakers community blog: Decision Making: Handling Information

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 25th July issue here.

What’s in it:

• Dr Jenny Brockis: Are we outsourcing our brains to the Internet?
• Ross Clennett: Play More Beach Volleyball to Bill More Fees
• Gihan Perera: Social Media Forum: Free Webinar on Wednesday
• How One Broken Promise Can Cost You Your Credibility
• Glenn Cardwell: Onion myth
• Glenn Cardwell: Zinc and the common cold
• The Money Guide: Time for tax planning
• Lesson from Murdoch #1 – Practice Business Transparency
• Has Your Business Gone Up in Ash?
• Gihan Perera: Free Webinar Next Tuesday: The Top 5 Ways to Attract High-Quality Incoming Leads
• differencemakers community blog: Decision making: Choosing the information that fits
• differencemakers community blog: Writing and sharing what we write is great for business
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 5
• Gihan Perera: The Biggest Mistake Web Site Owners Make: Internet Business Revolution Webinar Recording
• Matt Church: Mode Capabilities
• Practice of Wisdom Psychology: Time and Space!
• Gihan Perera: Build Your Web Site In Two Days – Workshops in Sydney, Auckland and Perth
• The Money Guide: How to reduce your tax
• Dr Jenny Brockis: Stress: Bad for body and brain
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 4
• Gihan Perera: Thinking Ahead Journal: 18th July 2011
• differencemakers community blog: What is your service-quality gap?
• Dr Jenny Brockis: Next time I wait three hours f…
• Blog: Are You Listenable?

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 18th July issue here.

What’s in it:

• differencemakers community blog: What is your service-quality gap?
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Help for beginners
• Ross Clennett: How Davidson Recruitment ranked #6 on the 2011 BRW Best Places to Work list
• differencemakers community blog: Leadership is useless without management
• Gihan Perera: Free Webinar on Thursday: The Biggest Mistake Business Owners Make With Their Web Sites
• Blooming Minds Blog: WRAP from Ruah
• Dr Jenny Brockis: In search of the Mediterranean diet: diary of a hungry tourist.
• Practice of Wisdom Psychology: Immunity to Change!
• Gihan Perera: Million Dollar Speaking, by Alan Weiss
• differencemakers community blog: Sustainability is an outcome of intention, heart and mind set, and action
• Donna Hanson’s Blog: Prime Productivity Pointer – Sections & Columns in Word
• Ross Clennett: The Duncan Cunningham Family Fund Appeal
• Gihan Perera: E-Mail Power Productivity Principles and Tactics
• differencemakers community blog: Promoting Your Services the Right Way
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 3
• differencemakers community blog: “Best Practice” doesn’t make a difference
• There’s an I in TEAM: Work as Refuge: How to Add Meaning to Your Life at Work
• Gihan Perera: Be an Expert Adviser, Not a Pushy Salesperson (Audio)
• differencemakers community blog: Community precedes culture change
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Respect in the garden
• Blooming Minds Blog: Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
• Ross Clennett: Exploding Stereotypes: My recent breakfast with Sir Richard Branson
• Gihan Perera: Thinking Ahead Journal: 11th July 2011
• Matt Church: Leveraged and Transactional Modes
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 2

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 11th July issue here.

What’s in it:

• Matt Church: Leveraged and Transactional Modes
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 2
• Donna Hanson’s Blog: Do you have email anxiety???
• Gihan Perera: 21 Ways to Promote Your Blog (Audio)
• differencemakers community blog: Is the imagination genie out of the bottle at your place?
• differencemakers community blog: Practical Decision Making: Force Field Analysis
• differencemakers community blog: My best work so far says Gihan Perera
• Gihan Perera: Intel’s Museum of Me – Cute or Creepy!
• Gary Ryan: What Really Matters! Volume 3, Number 2, 2011 ebook released
• Gihan Perera: Outsourcing with Elance.com: Internet Business Revolution Webinar Recording
• Blooming Minds Blog: ISHAR – Multicultural Women’s Health Centre
• differencemakers community blog: Where, when, and how do we draw our ethical lines?
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: What’s in a name?
• Practice of Wisdom Psychology: Why Worry?
• Ann Rolfe’s Mentoring Works Blog: Measure Mentoring — You Can’t Measure Everything But You Better Measure Something!
• Gihan Perera: Couple on the Run, by Andrew and Sue O’Brien
• The Money Guide: The financial year that was
• Gary Ryan: How strategy and S&Ps support great service
• Ross Clennett: The 5 things I wish I knew when I started in recruitment
• Gihan Perera: Thinking Ahead Journal: 4th July 2011
• Matt Church: Implement or die!
• differencemakers community blog: The Management Perception Gap
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Early warning system

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 4th July issue here.

What’s in it:

• Ross Clennett: The 5 things I wish I knew when I started in recruitment
• Matt Church: Implement or die!
• differencemakers community blog: The Management Perception Gap
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Early warning system
• Lifelong Fitness: Being fit makes you happier than being rich
• Gihan Perera: Free Webinar on Thursday: Outsourcing Secrets (The Internet Business Revolution)
• differencemakers community blog: When people need your help is your process simple, quick, and easy?
• Gihan Perera: Terry Brock’s Book Review of “Fast, Flat and Free”
• differencemakers community blog: Half the year has gone. Are you glad, sad, or mad?
• differencemakers community blog:
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Digging through the cultural layers
• differencemakers community blog: 21 Ways to Promote Your Blog
• Gary Ryan: Service Standards exist so that we can create Great Service
• Gihan Perera: Social Media Forum 29th June 2011: Webinar Recording
• The Money Guide: Qn: How do we get out of debt?
• 5 Ways to Reduce Tax Related Stress
• Practice of Wisdom Psychology: Attachment!
• The Almond Effect: The Keys to Resilience, Happiness, Self-Confidence and Compassion
• There’s an I in TEAM: 12 ways to keep your employees motivated, engaged and unified
• Gihan Perera: Thinking Ahead Journal: 27th June 2011
• Matt Church: The art of ‘Hustling’
• Ross Clennett: The Expert: Making visible what’s invisible

Every week I collect the most recent blog posts from my clients and eGurus members – all leading thinkers about business and life – and assemble them into the Thinking Ahead journal.

Download the 27th June issue here.

What’s in it:

• differencemakers community blog: Leading Australian Businessman, Mark Bouris, on Motivation for the Impossible
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation Factor 1
• Dr Jenny Brockis: A Better Test to Predict Alzhe…
• Gihan Perera: Give Away More – It Builds Your Authority
• differencemakers community blog: 1 am GMT 29th June 2011 could be an important deadline for you
• Dr Jenny Brockis: High Wired: Does Addictive Int…
• Lifelong Fitness: Maintain activity to prevent weight gain
• differencemakers community blog: Thriving on the challenges of change
• differencemakers community blog: In the Gardens of Children
• Gihan Perera: Connected, by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
• differencemakers community blog: Lead measures matter much more than lag measures
• Blog: Presenting Without Notes – Part 1
• Gary Ryan: Expert Tip – Motivation – Belief
• Gihan Perera: On-Line Positioning: Internet Business Revolution Webinar Recording
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Passing on your knowledge
• Ross Clennett: Beyond ‘free’ LinkedIn: what your $ buys you
• The Money Guide: Residential property vs shares since 1926
• Gihan Perera: On-Line Positioning: Free Webinar Tomorrow
• differencemakers community blog: The Social Entrepreneur as CEO/Business Leader
• Blog: Speak With Conviction
• Gary Ryan: Great service connects staff to your organisation
• Matt Church: New years eve every quarter
• Gihan Perera: Thinking Ahead Journal: 20th June 2011
• differencemakers community blog: 5 Star and 2 Star service can both be great, or not!
• Notes from the Workplace Garden: Getting worse before it gets better