Insights

Personal Training

I subjected my poor body to another session of Personal Training today. Whilst in the most uncomfortable and contorted of positions I began to reflect on my idea of personal brain training. What is incredibly useful about Personal Training is not only having the undivided attention of an expert, but the fact that you are
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On the Radio Again

Spent about 40 minutes on Nightlife last Thursday evening talking about leadership.  You can download a podcast here. Let me know what you think.
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The Archibald Prize

Another week goes by with out a post.  I feel very guilty but have the excuse of flu, and a trip to Bendigo on Monday and Tuesday.  The main reason for going was to visit the Archibald prize exhibition which has moved, for one year only, outside Melbourne to a country town gallery and the
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Bill Gates on the Early Days

Bill Gates was interviewed by the BBC’s Money Programme and extracts appear on the News Website. One quote struck me:  ‘The magic was not so much in the value of the deal with IBM, but rather that we did the evangelisation and we gave tools and information and just let anyone write software who wanted
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Hyperconnectivity

Nortel has published an excellent research White Paper called Hyperconnectivity, that it commissioned from IDC.  2,400 people were interviewed from 17 countries and they discovered that about 16% of respondents are hyperconnected.  That means being  ‘awlays on’ and using a multiplicity of devices to connect to the internet (I have 6 or 7 currently).  And
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It is Hard Writing a Blog

I am loath to winge on about the commitment required to write a Blog on a regular basis.  My aim is one new entry every few days and there are swathes of time when I manage this. At other times a week or more can pass and I am often stunned when the last posting
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What Work Does to You

This post has been sent to me three times, the last time by Natalie Palomo.  Thanks Nat.  It co-incided with another session on live radio last night talking about work and taking 12 phone-in calls. As usual some of the stories being related were awful and unacceptable  as work practices; most relating to appalling behaviour
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Days By Philip Larkin

      This is quoted in David Lodge’s new novel: Deaf Sentence and to me in an email by my friend Urszula: What are days for?Days are where we live.They come, they wake usTime and time over.They are to be happy in:Where can we live but days?   Philip Larkin
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It is all about Leadership!

A weary Barack Obama talks to his campaign team on the 6th June.  And in ten minutes he turns their focus from winning the Primary, to the race towards the election in November. He does it by framing the future for that group not by setting himself up as the heroic leader and central focus
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Personal Training

As I was being forced into an agonising position to do more repeats of an excercise than my body really wanted to do, I reflected on what made me crazy enough to have a personal trainer? For me, at this time, there are lots of good reasons: I get to do things I wouldn’t normally
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