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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…
Vale Ray Anderson a Sustainability Role Model
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…
Too much or too little praise spoils the relationship
One of the cheapest ways to increase employee motivation and retention is through increasing the positive feedback that employees receive. What that is required of managers is to pay attention…
It’s the environment stupid
Reading the Heath's book Switch: How to Change when change is hard, reinforces what I have been teaching for years: we can create a life environment that can support and…
Bill Gates starts the ‘Innovate to Zero’ party
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"…
Today’s Social Enterprise Ideas
Ideas for this week. Check out Fast Company's list of the 5 Social Capitalists for 2010 and their businesses. From a number of sources I am getting the message that…
How were you better today?
The cute video advertising Daniel Pink's new book Drive, suggests we ask two questions: 1. "What's my [epitaph] sentence? E.g. "She loved connecting people with ideas that their growth". 2.…
Do we really need abundance?
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…
Work life flexibility – a useful business strategy
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…
Rolling out the Red Carpet for Stakeholders
Imagine organising a stakeholder meeting, say for staff, community or suppliers, where there was a red carpet leading to the door? What message would that send to participants of the…
Are you an Indian Giver? And do you want to be?
I came across a reference to the original definition of an "indian giver" in the 25th anniversary edition of the book The Gift, by Lewis Hyde. The American Indians gave…