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In the latest interview in our series Leadership Matters, Paul McClintock joined Marks Allan and Alun Parry Boyden Australia to discuss his executive career, the challenges it has faced during his journey leadership and the problems facing the country today.
During the discussion, McClintock explains what attracted him the different roles of the board and management he currently holds, and the unique challenges that come with each As president of a major board MYER retailer , radiology network practice, I-MED, transport infrastructure company NSW Ports and national reflection president, CEDA, McClintock an interesting insight into the issues facing Australian businesses now and in the future.
The challenges I see through my wallet are similar, but they're in different states, and much of it is driven by new technologies and social changes that came from that says McClintock.
MYER is in the middle of the battle of globalization has arrived big time in Australia, thanks primarily by online technology, but now brick and mortar, concluding that it is a very exciting time to be in The detail.
In the radiology sector, much less, but if you look forward, you can see a technological break level At present, technology is actually a friend, is what allows us to produce truly national networks.
Ports is much more play, I often joke that in ports our long-term planning is 30 years ahead, while at the detail, it is next week.
As Chairman of five organizations and director of two, McClintock pass to why have a variety of specific problems to deal with every day is crucial for his roles.
I would like it to be a day and another on another day, but of course there is not It's a meeting at the next meeting the diversity of what I do means there are days when I deal with five or six different issues.
To some extent, you want someone's life who spends his year to do a particular job, but a manager is not supposed to do that McClintock adds.
If a director begins to focus on a job, they start to become management and effectively stop being able to do the job they are paid to've done.
Asked about the most difficult leadership challenge he has faced, McClintock cites the middle years of his career, where there was an expectation that it would lead, but still hadn t built a reputation of a leader .
The biggest leadership challenge is when you are not a leader of the time I was a counselor, you must provide leadership, but nobody sees your natural role.
So you must do it by putting your arguments, and you get a lot of disappointment because often you put a lot of effort into something and it disappears.
The middle years of my career where I was trying to show leadership, but I did not have the position to go with it was probably the hardest.
As a child, McClintock had a good idea of what he wanted to do, which allowed him to have a solid, linear progression of career When asked if he could share the best advice he had been given, McClintock refers to the opinion that he gave his son when he chose his HSC subjects.
Forget all the other stuff and follow the things that really capture your passion, Scan your interests and go for those if you look at my career and see no pattern, it is that I pursued my passions, I have things that I pursued thought to have been of interest to me that art as well as advice you could give to everyone.
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