Your Personal Legend

In my day job I am the Managing Director of two companies, but I am also a volunteer Senior Firefighter in the New Zealand Fire Service. This has offered me an amazing array of experiences and learning opportunities. I hadn’t expected it, but there are some incredible parallels between handling emergency situations and running high growth organizations like ours. I use this learning daily and have found the stories of jobs I have attended to be powerful metaphors for what we experience daily at work.

Early in my blog I started writing about these experiences in a series called “Business Lessons of a Firefighter”

I have loved Business since my early teens, in fact probably my whole life. As a result of this fascination, lots of reading and growing up in a family business the receptors in my brain are hard wired to see connections between running a business and almost everything else.

Soon I was sharing what I’ve learnt from my kids. There are so many parallels between parenting and HR, developing strategy, day to day management, negotiation and of course leadership, and as a result published a series called “Business Lessons From Kids”.

My blog as changed alot over time, and one of those reworks saw me integrate these stories more generally into other blog sections like “creativity” and “business”

I did however create a new section that included some of these stories. In this series, I share some thoughts on creating your “Your Personal Legend”

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