Let’s talk about the monkey on your back!

Let’s talk about the monkey on your back!

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Makoto’s Managing Director, Daniel Giles recently sat down with Chris Goddard, Director of Black Swan Consultancy New Zealand to discuss how you should spend your time on the path to success.

Based in the idyllic Central Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island, Chris spoke with Daniel from the comfort of his environmentally conscious sea container home.

Listen in to their wide-ranging conversation as they discuss some classics like:

– The monkey on your back
(hbr.org/1999/11/management-ti…e-whos-got-the-monkey)
– Pleasing your boss or one up
– Systems time – things that are important but not urgent
– How to delegate authority to empower your teams
– Covey’s Quadrant model
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Things_First_(book))
– Coaching Katas
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Kata

Click play to listen to the podcast:

About Chris Goddard

Holding an Engineering Degree focused on engineering, management and process control, Chris Goddard has led or supported large scale sustainable operational & commercial transformations in Australia & New Zealand over the past two decades.

His formidable resume encompasses a career in various transformational, commercial and business improvement roles with the likes of NZAS, Boyne Smelters, Comalco Aluminium Limited and Rio Tinto.

Chris now enjoys a more relaxed pace with his wife Donna in Otago, where together as Black Swan Consultancy New Zealand they provide support to various SME and local community in core skills including lifting leadership capability, risk management, managing external stakeholders & business transformation.

Watch the conversation on YouTube.

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