New work arrangements and productivity In Australia this week we’ve had a spike in COVID cases and as I was chatting with a few people online about this I noticed some comments were, “here we go again!”. We are months and months into this pandemic, and...
If you’ve ever watched any one part of any episode of The Real Housewives of … well, anywhere, you’ll no doubt hear an argument: five or more high pitched voices yelling to be heard. No-one listening, everyone scrambling to be heard. Everyone focused...
Have you taken an assessment of any sort and been surprised with the results? When I take 360 degree assessments like Myers Briggs Type Indicator, DiSC or Leadership Effectiveness Assessment I always find something surprising in the results. Sometimes surprising good...
In high school I bought and read the CliffsNotes for Macbeth: I thought I was pretty savvy. Even though we read Macbeth in class and the teacher tried to explain it as we read it, the CliffsNotes, I recall, helped give me more context. Book summaries are a great way...
10th July Now and Next Years ago, my afternoon stroll home from the train station to my place included walking past a Chinese takeaway shop. More often than not I’d stand in front of that massive menu board and feel overwhelmed with choice… I want choice...
When the planes hit the twin towers in New York that fateful 2001 September day, you couldn’t help but stay glued to the news. Never before had a TV been front and centre in any workplace I had worked in, but there it was. A constant news feed of the events...
