Writer, golfer and golf writer, Byron has developed and moved on from the relatively straightforward world of management and leadership writing with inferences of motivation, leadership skills, change matrices, decision making, communication, customer care, bottom lines, double-loop learning, stress, attribution theory, behavioural interviewing, project management, group think and Johnson and Scholes’ Cultural Web, to the complex and unfathomable world of hitting a ball into a hole.
Golf is frustrating, annoying, fun and, to be fair, of limited value in the important areas of our life; global warming, birth, world peace, elections or helping better get along better – quite the opposite actually.
He has written for a number of golf publications including Golf International and is golf writer for Cambria Magazine. His book ‘Tenby to Celtic Manor: A History of Welsh Golf’ (2010) was an underground success in select parts of Wales, but has not sold out totally and some copies can still be found on the back shelves of selected bookshops, alongside original copies of ‘Fly Fishing’ by J.R. Hartley.
Recent developments have seen Byron delve into the even seamier world of poker. He has written a number of articles for magazines and is developing a deep interest in Welsh Poker. Stay tuned.
Prior to focusing on golf writing …………
Byron Kalies was a columnist and feature writer specialising in business and management, training and consultancy, psychology, tourism, sport, music, humour … and the 220 possible combinations of the above.
He was the author of Tales From the Front (HRD Press, U.S.A - and 25 Management Techniques in 90 minutes (MB2000), a contributing editor for C.I.O. (IDG Communications) and had written for a number of publications worldwide including:
Across The Board (U.S.A.), Business Day (South Africa), Career Times (Hong Kong), C.F.O. (Australia), Golf Today (U.S.A.), Management First (U.K.), Management Today (Australia), Marketing Magazine (N.Z.), Public Servant (U.K.), The Age (Australia), The Guardian (U.K.).
Byron always speaks in the third person about himself.
Hello Byron
Really love your blog. Found it while searching for anyone who might have a clue as to why we bother playing medals and stablefords when the computer always adjusts to stableford scores before applying handicap adjustments. Do you have any insights? I have disgruntled ladies on my hands who would do anything but play in medal comps!