Insights

Australia 2020

The Australian Prime Minister has convened a SummitSummit in the middle of April to help define Australia’s future.  1000 of the best and brightest have been invited to Canberra to debate ten themes in groups of 100.  Well so what!  In this age of the internet, all the preliminary papers have been posted onto the
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Bad, Bad PowerPoint

TechHerding has produced a PowerPoint to attack boring, meaningless PowerPoint Presentations.  It really speaks for itself. Thanks Dick Carlson for this and drawing my attention to it. Find more videos like this on LearningTown – Beta 1.2
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Leading in the Digital Age

Chief Learning Officer Magazine leads with an Executive Briefing that quotes a report from the Center for Creative Leadership..  It looks at the challenges of managing a global workforce and comes up with the startling conclusion (!):  the leader needs to communicate more.  Here is their conclusion:  leaders should stay in touch with remote employees
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Marshall Goldsmith (again)

I have talked about Marshall before. He is wise and challenging; who wouldn’t want to be coached by him.  For most of us, however, the more realistic outcome is to read what he writes and listen to what he says.  He has recorded a podcast for Harvard Publishing (called an HBR IdeaCast) based on his
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US08

If you want to see why this Democrat Primary battle going on in the US is different from anything else I have experienced in my lifetime you should invest 30 minutes of your time and listen to this speech, given yestereday, in Philadelphia by Barack Obama. It engages is a discussion at a level beyond
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Please Australia Let’s Have Some Vision for Broadband

The Sunday Age>:  March 2nd 2008.  The Australian Labor Party announces plans to tender for a fibre to the node network to get most of the population broadband speeds of up to 24mbps.  A little behind virtually everyone else, but better late than never.  I have argued many times and in many places that ubiquitous
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The Traveller’s Table

I think that this, genuinely, needs no comment apart from, perhaps, saying:  travel in the modern age!
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Passion and Politics

If you think that there is no passion left in politics, then you should take a look at this rant from Keith Oberman.  It takes a swipe at Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the current Democrat Primary race and rails against the nastiness and hypocrisy. Oberman is no dispassionate side man:  this takes him, momentarily at
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Challenge and Learning

In today’sIndependent , Howard Jacobson makes a very cogent point: ‘Study is meant to make you feel at sea.  The self is not a precious entity that must be soothed and eased at every turn.’ He rails against a culture that demands self-validation rather than challenge.  And he is right.  If you want to change
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Talent Spreads!

Gordon Brown the UK PM speaking, now, live at the Labour Party spring conference in Birmingham this Saturday morning. ‘ The old way was just to provide a safety net below which nobody could fall. The new way, in this new age of rising ambition, is to provide a platform, from which each individual can
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