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Brendan Shaw
- Oct 25, 2019
- 4 min
Seriously? Already?: Shawview Consulting two years on
I passed a milestone the other day. I had forgotten all about it, until LinkedIn kindly reminded me in one of those sometimes annoying pop-up reminders. This was a surprise one sunny afternoon I hadn't expected. Apparently, I have been running my own consulting business for two years. (Pause .... ) After I picked myself up off the floor from the shock, I took a few minutes to reflect on this. There was a time when I would never have imagined that I would be one of those peopl
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Brendan Shaw
- Sep 13, 2019
- 4 min
Is your attitude worth catching?
"Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?" - Australian Men’s Cricket Team slogan, 2001 tour of India. I recently attended a fascinating talk by Adam Gilchrist, former captain of the Australian men’s cricket team, organised by the Australia-UK Chamber of Commerce here in London. Gilchrist told the story of the Australian team's tour of India in 2001 when Steve Waugh was captain and Gilchrist was vice-captain. Australia toured India for a series of test and one-day
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Brendan Shaw
- Mar 30, 2018
- 3 min
A right balls-up: organisational decision making under pressure
If anyone was in any doubt that culture, teamwork and leadership were crucial to good organisational decision-making and success, just ask the Australian cricket team. Here is a team of talented individuals that was, by any definition, a successful organisation. They’d won the cricket World Cup in 2015 and had just come off a very successful Ashes test series defeating again England 4 - 0. They are currently ranked 3rd best test team in the world. Today they are a team dealin
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