Episode 11: Take A Look In The Mirror

Apr 27, 2018

Geoff Hetherington is ‘The Clarity CEO’, helping business owners to de-clutter their ideas (and their lives) with his compassionate but no-nonsense approach. He is also a Chairman and an advisory board director to several Australian companies.

 

In this episode, we dive into topics such as:

• Being brutally selective with your focus and your energy
• The importance of having a regular ‘reset’
• Advisory boards VS Governance boards
• The ideal size for an effective board
• Stepping back before deciding how to react
• Observe -> Understand -> Identify -> Decide
• The four stages of learning
• The importance of putting away your privilege
• Key ground rules for directors
• And much more!

 

Links

LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/geoffhetherington

Website: http://geoffhetherington.com/about/

Dancing Blind Man consulting: http://dancingblindman.com/

 

Top Quotes

1. “My Dad always said to me the only thing you’ve got to strive to achieve in life is to be happy at the guy who looks back at you from the mirror every morning”
2. “The hard thing for young people is to figure out how to avoid playing the politics”
3. “It is so hard to find people that actually run businesses to come and sit on the board. That’s the other thing that’s happening with boards - the people that make up the boards are not necessarily the best or the brightest: they are the most available”.
4. “If you understand or at least you can identify what is wrong, you can then make a conscious decisions about what you’ll do or how you’ll react”
5. “Really good directors have the ability to step back and observe what’s happening. They are also smart enough to understand that nothing makes you do anything, because you have the choice of how you react to external stimuli”.
6. “There’s four stages of learning: you start off unconsciously incompetent, you become consciously incompetent, then you become consciously competent, then you become unconsciously competent”.
7. “What I say to my clients is: ‘don’t hire staff’. What you should be hiring for is for talent. You can always teach talented people something”.