Celebrating Australian Women’s Writers on IWD
It's International Women's Day and what better way to acknowledge inspiring women than to Join the Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge. Even though I've given the competition…
It's International Women's Day and what better way to acknowledge inspiring women than to Join the Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge. Even though I've given the competition…
Thanks to John Campbell at Growth Coaching International for the link to recent research into the benefits of asking questions before doing a task, versus making affirmations. The research shows…
I love the name and the concept - flip what students learn in the classroom. Instead of teaching them the theory in the classroom and then have them do "homework"…
After a month of argument and counter argument on the Next Director LinkedIn Group, I think it is time to move on and start to answer a much more interesting…
I love this question but wonder whether I am naive - the answer seems obvious to me (although making it happen will be harder). The responsibility to shareholders as the…
I am enjoying reading a friend's first encounters with the Apple iPhone 4S. Steve B has a wicked sense of humour and has started asking Siri questions such as "What…
Three years on from first being introduced to Gayle Avery and her work on sustainable leadership and I still cannot easily explain what I mean by the word sustainability. Now…
Good to hear that one of my favourite books - Giving Voice to Values, by Mary Gentile - is coming out in paperback. Next month's task is to get the…
After reading Alexander McCall Smith’s article in the Sydney Morning Herald about his writing being deeply unfashionable when he started, I decided to allow myself to be deeply unfashionable too.…
I was saddened to read the news that Ray Anderson, the Chairman and former CEO of flooring services business Interface, had died on August 9th. He was a great role…
I'm back on the couch enjoying the Tour de France and the sprint stages continue to reinforce Belbin's maxim that a "champion team [with a common purpose] will beat a…
Love it. Watch it and cheer! It takes courage to be a leader because you can equally be considered just a lone nut, but in the view of Derek Sivers,…