I’ve found myself in three situations in the past fortnight that have got me thinking about the need to both hold on to certain traditions and practices whilst also constantly looking for ways to move forward, innovate and adapt to the ever changing world. Recently at work I’ve felt torn between the tried and proven
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Are Your Early Warning Systems In Place?
I was recently returning from a business trip and made the unusual decision to watch a movie on the plane. I am normally one of these people who see plane trips as an opportunity to get some work done. The movie was The Impossible, about the tragic events of Boxing Day in 2004 which saw
Is Education Everything?
What do Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs all have in common? Besides all having incredibly successful careers, none have a university degree. This begs the question – is education the be all and end all? If not, why is it often a prerequisite? As a
Has Email Made Us Time Poor?
On the way home one night I was listening to a radio show arguing about whether “email wastes your time?” The presenter was talking to the CEO of two sports clubs in NSW who said he had been wasting at least four hours per day answering emails and was wondering why he felt so overburdened.
The Eternal Gender Debate
Recently, I had the “good fortune” of taking my two sons to the park for a play date. This task is rarely assigned to me but I accepted it with a certain excitement. When I arrived at the park, I was met by approximately 15 mothers and 25 kids but not one father in sight.
Australia and PPP’s – What’s does the future hold for Infrastructure Projects?
Firstly, let me say I am by no means an expert in this field, rather someone who has been exposed to PPP’s (Public Private Partnerships) as an observer through contacts in the Corporate Advisory and Infrastructure space for some time now. Being based in Brisbane and having seen a number of changes in the Queensland
Manners: A Forgotten Art
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of having lunch with a group of my long term clients. We have all known each other for the best part of a decade and the relationships are more personal than professional nowadays. We regularly talk about our respective businesses; our challenges and our successes alike. One of
Keeping It Real
I am a keen Carlton supporter in the AFL and I am more than aware that we are playing finals footy when in reality we finished outside the eligible top eight for qualification. We rode in off the back of the Essendon ASADA scandal and we now find ourselves having won an Elimination Final moving
Not Just Warm Fuzzies
Working to live or living to work? According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, one in six employees work 49 hours or more each week. In numbers, this translates to almost 1.7 million people. If you then account for the fact that the average person sleeps around 7 hours per night, this means that we