Ten years ago there were very few genuine change manager or culture transformation roles. Change was something you did to enterprise architecture, software and processes. We all now know that was only ever half the story at best. It’s the 2016 Olympics and Rio de Janeiro has been “transformed”; yet not without its problems and the bad publicity it has … Read More
Mr Rudd clearly very UN-happy but was he wronged?
I understand, Mr. Rudd. I really do. You wanted the job, possibly even more than you ever wanted the prime ministership (We’re just a small island in Asia after all). You hoped for endorsement from the government of the day. You needed it to have any chance of being appointed to the top job at the UN. You didn’t get … Read More
The Latest Challenger Disaster: When we repeatedly fail to challenge (c)overt bias
“You’re obviously very technical”, said Rob. “Thank you. But why do you say that?” I asked with some degree of (well, actually considerable) surprise in my voice. “Well, you just seem to know your way around technology” said the editor of my new speaker reel. Now, I wrestled years ago with Sony Vegas ahead of my son’s Bar Mitzvah as … Read More
Election Nightmares: When both sides fail to clear the bar
Those who will take up broadsheet and digital column inches analysing voter sentiment today in terms of beliefs, quite frankly, will be missing the mark. The young woman who I saw run 200 metres to catch her train and gave up with 30 metres to go didn’t change her beliefs when she stopped. She’d reached that spontaneous split second trigger … Read More
Maria ‘Shriekapova’ shirks the truth of the real issue here
Maria Sharapova says she is relieved she was not found to have intentionally deceived anyone even though she suppressed her use of Meldonium from people close to her. No, it wasn’t a banned substance until this year but the experts say it gives someone a physiological edge – therefore it was performance-enhancing. The issues seem therefore to be issues of … Read More
Leicester the losers – but not any more
I can hear the comments now. You couldn’t write a script better than this one. The most extraordinary comeback in the history of sport. Ever. They’ve worked out the odds. 1000 times less likely than Essendon winning this year’s flag. How does an English premiership team facing relegation at the end of 2015 get up the next year with a brand … Read More
Harry Potter and the Dark Art of Shooting the Messenger
It was certainly an interesting way to begin my journey to Gladwell’s 10,000 hours to become an expert. What did the local Community Centre have budget for way back then for me as a mother of a sleepy and somewhat boring but delicious baby? An alcohol education program for convicted drink drivers! Thus began my journey into the world of tough audiences … Read More
60 minutes of fame and much longer misfortune
The drama unfolding in Beirut with a Channel Nine crew formally charged on kidnapping, not respecting local authority and causing harm is sobering, confronting and potentially a life changing lesson for anyone affected by the alleged kidnapping gone horribly wrong.Snide comments were made by other media outlets in the first few hours after the story broke as they pondered just … Read More
Surprising Nobility in Restricted Mobility
Everyone wants to know how it happened. With not a shadow of a lie, I tell them. Think Roger Federer. Australian Open. Tennis ball. Fractured foot. They were all involved. Just not the way you might imagine.Roger was warming up. It was the Australian Open. He was on the television screen at the time. I stepped out into my back garden… onto a … Read More
Much Ado About Nothing (according to the offensive)
In no particular order but highly interchangeable:“It’s a total overreaction.”“It’s political correctness gone mad!”“I was quoted out of context.”“It was just one of those things. (You know what) happens.” And my personal paraphrased favourite by none other than Barnaby Joyce, future leader of the National Party is that “it would be a shame if we became a sterile nation.” We … Read More