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Vulture Culture by Leanne Faraday-Brash

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Vulture Cultures: How to stop them ravaging your organisation’s performance, people, profit and public image is now available to purchase online.

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After you’ve read this book you will never look at your organisation in the same light again!

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The Launch

Thanks to everyone who booked for the launch of Leanne’s book Vulture Cultures at the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) on 28th November – the event is now booked out. We look forward to seeing you on the night. Thanks also to AIM for their wonderful support.

About the Book

Vulture Cultures is a provocative and entertaining book that articulates, in vivid detail, the tell-tale signs and symptoms of destructive workplaces. From the incompetent to the incomprehensible, the disruptive to the dastardly, this book will explain how bad behaviour gains a foothold and what perpetuates it against all good common sense. The book provides both high-level strategies and readily applicable tips for the CEO and the change leader as well as the vulnerable and the victimised. Vulture Cultures does not dwell on the sociopath or the employee with a personality disorder. In truth, for all the sensationalist hype that surrounds them, they account for a very small percentage of the workforce population. All the characters, cultures and case studies are 100% real and based on Leanne’s 20-year history consulting.

About the Author

Leanne Faraday-Brash is an Organisational Psychologist, speaker, executive coach and facilitator with two decades of experience in organisational capability and culture, equal opportunity, conflict resolution, change, leadership, emotional intelligence and resilience. She has presented in Europe, the US, Asia, the Middle East and across Australia and has appeared on radio and television. Her expert commentary and opinion pieces are regularly sought for broadsheet and online publications. Leanne lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband Fred and their four children.

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Seriously Negative Energy at EnergyWatch

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:15:56 +0000

We have probably all seen or heard about the unfortunate rants by Ben Polis, disgraced (now former) CEO of EnergyWatch who’s confessed racist vitriol on Facebook cost his company its sponsorship deals with Melbourne Football Club and Melbourne Victory. Interesting about this scandal connected with sport is that the sponsor created the furore, not the footy club and it was the club forced to cut ties for fear of being vicariously besmirched. It has always happened the other way round until now… which brings me to my point. There are just some critical incidents for which there are no precedents. We remember Steve Bradbury’s Gold Medal, not because he came first, but because he was the last one left upright when he crossed the line. There was no precedent for the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in terms of its cataclysmic impact, the poisoning of headache tablets and subsequent deaths of seven consumers in the tragic 1982 Tylenol case and the Wayne Carey/Kelly Stevens saga that severely disrupted North Melbourne’s season to say nothing of the psychological devastation for some of its players and the strain on team relationships.

Companies cannot be prepared for every watershed, take your breath away trend breaking contingency. We are operating in a new paradigm; one in which every suburban blogger is a published author, everyone with a Twitter account is a social commentator, everyone with a YouTube channel is a would-be celebrity and every smart phone owner a primetime producer of current affairs and captor of breaking news.

Therefore the only way companies can prepare is to do the following in preparation for any potential media scandal:

Ensure staff understand the critical importance of preserving the company’s digital reputation
Respond rather than react to negative publicity
Embrace social media and control the message as best you can
Use skilled PR and communications staff as trusted advisers but own your own decisions
Always put the safety of staff and customers first – no exceptions
Ensure you have diverse, balanced representation around the board table in determining early primary and secondary strategy
Don’t give undue control or sway to major clients or sponsors as they may be of the belief that any publicity is good publicity for them
Act bravely and decisively to ‘cut the tangled parachute’ of wrongdoers as long as you are sure theyhave done the wrong thing and that you accord them procedural fairness. Don’t ever offer up a scapegoat. Any punishment must fit the crime
Swift decisive clear consistent messages including acknowledgement of wrongdoing deliveredauthentically is the best and most ethical way to make it go away
Watch the blogosphere and gauge the mood of members, shareholders, supporters and clients but don’t be overly swayed; their moral compass may just be magnetised by a conflict of interests. You must always do what’s morally sound even if the members want you to keep playing the star player who fraternises with criminals or otherwise brings the ‘club’ or the ‘firm’ into disrepute. Even if they are willing to sell out on ethics in the short term, it’s a false win and will always come back to haunt you because of the message it sends and its impact on company culture
….oh, and try to do the right thing every time!

There must be a collective conscience about Kony

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:15:13 +0000

Unless you’ve been marooned on a desert island you will have heard about the extraordinary documentary made by the film maker Jason Russell and the Invisible Children movement about the ruthless warlord Joseph Kony in Uganda. In a half hour documentary on YouTube, Kony is accused of capturing and brainwashing thousands of child soldiers, many of whom have then reportedly mutilated other children or returned home to murder members of their own families. The explicit aim of the documentary and endorsement by several A-list celebrities is designed to put political pressure on world leaders to act on something they have purportedly known about for a long time but did nothing about. It is not the first time western leaders have been accused of valuing the lives of their own well above others living far away. However a second disturbing element of this story emerging in the wake of the first is the aspersions now being cast on those dedicated to the capture of Kony and what they are doing with donations they have received by those keen to help. Firstly it is worth noting that the rumour they are misappropriating monies that should otherwise be spent on the cause, is ironically itself only a rumour spawned in the same social media the documentary makers themselves are attempting to exploit. However they are not a registered charity, they have dedicated 10 years of their lives to pursuing this man and profiling his horrific deeds. What is the opportunity cost for them in having spent a decade trying to bring this despot down? What good will a couple of million dollars do and haven’t they done more than any government to date? How else do they fund the manufacture of their action kits, banners and badges? They have been explicit in stating their primary aim is to highlight the plight of Ugandan boy child soldiers and girl sex slaves and bring Kony into captivity. Are they not acting in a way consistent with that? For the money rumour to gain traction is to detract and distract from the significance of what the documentary makes are trying to achieve and means we play into the hands of the evil perpetrator. Some world aid charities themselves are borderline exploiters of grief and dislocation in a bid to shock donors out of their compassion fatigue and habituation to human suffering. Linda Polman, a War correspondent in Sierra Leone and Liberia for many years chronicles this phenomenon in her book War Games. Only this week we heard the account of a journalist who paid to attend a Fundraising Conference here in Australia and was dismayed at the lengths charities are being encouraged to go to compete for our hard earned donation dollar in a world where government aid allocations cannot be assumed. Why if Russell has such a horrific, dramatic and emotional story to tell should he not use drama and emotion to do so? I hold World Vision to account in ensuring our monthly payment assists our young Arcidio in Mozambique to live a better life. I hold the Kony 2012 documentary makers who have opened our eyes and have brought pressure to bear on western governments to expedite the capture of the evil Joseph Kony, accountable for nothing. Invisible Children deserves our admiration and tangible support, not our cynicism nor our self-righteous deflections. The world of social media means we live in extraordinary times. Surely its biggest gift for all its downsides is its power to inform, bring people together in the spirit of a common cause and call us to action.

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