Alan Haselden - Can We Just Get to the Point?

                 

 

Duff's guest this week is Alan Haselden. Alan had a long and successful corporate career before entering into local politics. Alan shares over 50 years of lessons with us such as "Identify bad actors and weed them out", "Never lose sight of the detail", and " "Can we just get to the point" among others.

About Alan Haselden 

Alan Haselden is a graduate mechanical engineer from the University of Auckland and enhanced his professional qualifications later with an MBA from the University of New England (Australia) and a diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Prior to retirement from full time work, for 16 years Alan, as Managing Director-Asia Pacific, lead the operations of Garlock, the major subsidiary of EnPro Industries (NYSE:NPO).

Since 2012, Alan has been an elected representative in Australian local government and sits on the board of Hydraulink, a trans-Tasman business in the fluid power industry.  He is also a director of the National Space Society of Australia

 

Lesson 1: Identify bad actors and weed them out 08m 51s.

Lesson 2: Identify the contributors and look after them 11m 00s.

Lesson 3: Deference, politeness and humility are universal 15m 22s.

Lesson 4: Keep looking out 20m 40s.

Lesson 5: Never lose sight of the detail 23m 57s.

Lesson 6: Be wary of acquisitions 29m 46s.

Lesson 7: Please don’t give me data without a conclusion and a recommendation 35m 11s.

Lesson 8: Can we just get to the point? 37m 55s.

Lesson 9: Try to pre-empt what your boss will ask you to do 40m 20s.

Lesson 10: Take care of the top line and you’ll end up paying less attention to the expenses 43m 05s.