Waking up the Workplace
I'm enjoying the podcasts from Ewan, Jeroen and Diederick at Waking up the Workplace. So far I've listened to Susanne Cook-Greuter, Bob Anderson, Tony Schwartz and Rand Stagen all talk…
I'm enjoying the podcasts from Ewan, Jeroen and Diederick at Waking up the Workplace. So far I've listened to Susanne Cook-Greuter, Bob Anderson, Tony Schwartz and Rand Stagen all talk…
Many thanks to Gihan Perera's Expert Gold newsletter and webinars for his simple guidelines which are helping to make my social media more efficient. If I follow his instructions properly,…
Now here's a headline I like to see: "100% Renewable Energy is not limited to our Wildest Dreams" . According to the researchers, it is possible in 20-40 years at…
Happy New Year. Over Christmas I read up on a number of books explaining the Business Case for Sustainability including: The Sustainability Advantage, by Bob Willard Sustainable Leadership: Honeybee &…
Last night's WakeUp Sydney event was a heart-expanding exploration of what it means to connect with our Mother Earth. Jono Fisher and the team did a fabulous job and I…
A lovely snippet from Russell Ackoff's Reflections 2002 article: "Development is an increase in the desire and ability to satisfy one’s own needs and legitimate desires, and those of others".…
Courtesy of AFR BOSS and UTS, I enjoyed hearing Roger Martin – Dean of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management – talk about design thinking yesterday. I especially liked hearing his experiences as a consultant with business managers and their reliability focus. It seems that the killer question that is asked of any new innovative recommendation is “can you prove it works?”, which is, of course impossible ahead of time. So Martin has a neat way of turning the future into the past, as well as other tools and techniques he has studied and developed over the past decade.
The comments were quite helpful for me as a consultant promoting new social and sustainable business practices, as well as the engineering colleague at our table, who is working with clients to develop closed loop sustainable business models.
For more on this topic, check out Roger Martin’s website library of books, articles, videos and blogs, including his new book ‘The Design of Business’ – available through Amazon, or Dymocks in Australia.
Thanks to Remo Guiffre from my favourite online shop REMO, for conneting me to Bill Gates' latest TED Talk. Bill believes that climate is even important than "vaccines and seeds"…
For a while now I have been testing the word "grow" as an alternative to "change". I know I have an aversion to being asked to "change" and even the…
A good take on the abundance vs sufficiency dilemma from writer and personal life coach Bruce Elkin here. I agree with a lot of his sentiments and am working to…
A Fast Company leadership article about CFO views of work life flexibility strategies is yet another example of the knowing - doing gap. Yost's study of CFO perspectives confirms that…
According to author Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneurs don't ask themselves "Do I want to make money and gain power and prestige?", rather they ask "Do I want to make meaning?", or…