Girl Code – women soaring together
Book review of Girl Code, by Cara Alwill Leyba. This wasn’t the book I was expecting – there are a couple of books with the same title about girl coders.…
Career path stories – planned or intuitive?
A 2014 article by Dennis Nishi in the Wall Street Journal, tells an anecdote about a school teacher, Eric Adler, who becomes a consultant, but doesn't like consulting and then…
We can all be philanthropists
Thanks to the Centre for Social Impact and AGSM for a very interesting lecture on philanthropy by Daniel Petre. Although I initially thought the topic was “preaching to the converted”,…
The new work frontier – human powered organisations
With human power being the most plentiful resource on our planet, I cannot understand why so many organisations are still focused on lowering headcount and replacing people with technology. I…
Redefining Education – “school for life”
I've been catching up on some overdue reading from the Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2012 edition. So many great ideas and so little time to play with them all. …