In 1999, one of my F/A-18 instructors was Major Mark ‘Grace’ Kelly, on exchange from the United States Air Force. Back then, he was a...

In this short, (incredibly poor quality) clip, we see me handing over the ‘Corps of Officer Cadets’ to Andrew Hawke, the Academy Cadet...

I stand in front of a room full of fighter pilots. Today I am 'Shogun 1', and I'm briefing 'Shogun Warlock Viking'; a 12 aircraft strike...

How do you react in extreme situations? Perhaps more importantly, how do your staff see you react under stress. As a leader, your...

Let me begin by saying ALL the best leaders I have worked for were popular. Popular in so much as…I liked working for them. They were...

Three characteristics your staff are looking for in you. Courage, Confidence, Calmness. Regarding calmness... "Sir, I wish you wouldn't...

This will have to be a particularly short blog, as I will spend today flying a few hundred passengers to Chengdu and back. But I have to...

Ask 10 leaders, and you’ll probably get 11 different answers. For me, I would go back to basics; to the definition of leadership....

I grew up in a very small country town in South Australia. No movie theatre, no traffic lights, not even a McDonalds! In 1987, a close...

For many of us, we are in a place that we want to escape. The ‘place’ might be a job, a relationship, or any number of other situations...

Our staff are incredibly good at sniffing out liars, and they don’t like them. They’d much rather a boss who is technically mediocre but...

There has been an explosion (no pun intended) of comment, tweets, videos, memes etc on President Zelenskyy recently. For a politician,...

This is Larry. He was a Spartan warrior; a member of an elite military unit. Every Monday morning, Larry would jump out of bed eager for...

*"At the core of every special forces soldier is a desire to do their best, whether someone is watching or not, and whether there is...

I’m strapped into my F/A-18. It’s a very dark night in Northern Australia, and I’m waiting to start the jet at the pre-briefed time. I...

If you are lonely when you’re leading, you’re probably not. (Chew on that for a while!) “It’s lonely at the top”, or what some industries...

Your boss makes a mistake…what do you do? In a fighter mission, often junior pilots will be leading their superiors. In the debrief, it...

If you are serious about improving your business every day, you need to be analysing everything you do. “Everything?” you ask…...

Flying the 'cardboard bomber'. When we initially perform a new task, it absorbs much of our conscious thought and we are unable to do...

I’ve got some uncomfortable news for you…if you are working significantly longer hours than others in your team, you probably aren’t...