My Vivid Contrast Experience

A vivid contrast experience that lights my path serving leaders.?

In the formative years of my career, I had up an up close and personal experience with a world famous case of business leadership extremes.

In this extreme case, we had Kimberly Clark led by Darwin Smith, Wayne Sanders, Tom Fork versus Scott Paper, led by Al ‘Chainsaw’ Dunlap.

We had in the extremes, building people and systems to remain fit for purpose versus narrow, focused value extraction.

This case study brought a lot of public attention and if you're curious for more on it, I'd really recommend checking out Jim Collins ‘Good to Great’, particularly Chapter Two. And to search Al ‘Chainsaw’ Dunlap, you'll find a myriad of colourful feature stories.

In my experience, I was with Kimberly Clark, as a leader at the time of the integration of Scott Paper into the Kimberly Clark global community. And I worked with the Malaysian leadership team. They were a lovely, hospitable people. And we found behind the scenes that in this workplace there was exhausted teams, fragile systems, low trust networks, and quite frankly, flaky performance measurement. It was all theatre.

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This vivid contrast experience still informs me today.?

I wonder for you, who's the Guide view Beside you?

Bernie

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Are you a Bright Spark, bright with a spark for today and the future, seeking reconnection with what matters and the capability to lead with intention without being limited by your past, even if the world around you is constantly disrupting?

Are you a Bold Executive Leader seeking shifts in yourself and your organisation’s outcomes without compromising relationships, self-care, and meaning in work, even if the conundrums are mounting and deep down you doubt this is possible across your team?

Are you a Board Director seeking to maintain or achieve industry leadership through periods of disruption, without disrupting shareholder confidence or Executive commitment, even if others in your industry say it is not possible?

Where do you need to elevate and integrate?

Bernie is known for building capability and confidence in leaders who need to transform organisations that are continually reshaping to survive and thrive.

His career began in whole of enterprise and cross-organisation shifts, followed by 10 years in Business Transformation Diagnostics, Training, and Mentoring across Australia and SE Asia.?He currently works with leaders who are focused on accelerated development and re-imagination of industry value systems. He loves working with the Bright, the Bold and the Board to successfully transition to the next phase, creating a positive ripple effect.

In 2020 Bernie authored Traction: Building Change-fit Leadership Teams.

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