Tweet APESMA 2009-10 Women in the Professions Survey Report has just been released and it contains some sobering reading about how women are still treated unfairly and inequitably in the workplace. As noted on the APESMA site: Nearly 70% of respondents said that taking maternity/parental leave – including unpaid leave – was likely to be [...]
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What matters?
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet A recent discovery for me is McKinsey & Company’s new site What Matters. It is a thought provoking question and it is good to see it being tackled by McKinsey and their interesting array of authors. The things that matter change if we are considering big or small things. At this time in our [...]
Alignment of articulated and enacted values in business
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet The issue of how well an organisation’s values align between what they say they are and what they actually do in practise was illustrated very graphically by a large software company this past week. It also shows how difficult it is to get all parts of a large organisation to act in the same [...]
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Big kittehs on drugs?
August 21st, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
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Operating systems are merely hygeine factors …
August 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ideas
Tweet Many people in the IT industry don’t realise that operating systems are not important to ordinary folks. We don’t want to be bothered with things that live under the surface of our devices. This is one of the reasons Apple has made such inroads in recent years, they abstract the complexity away from users [...]
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Sometimes this is the only thing to do on Caturday …
August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
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It’s real people and real communications
August 13th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet This past week I spoke at the Sydney session of the International Customer Service Professionals (ICSP) on the topic of How can Social Media benefit our business? along with several other well known professionals (@carolskyring, @jasonealey , @CatrionaPollard). It is always interesting to see how business people – whose real jobs are something completely [...]
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Tolerance: freedom of speech, thought, association and discussion
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet It has been very interesting (during the 2010 Australian federal election campaign) to watch people advocating freedom of speech on one hand and then getting upset when people with differing views speak out. The intolerance of opposing points of view has really resonated with me. It makes me a bit sad that we are [...]
Filesharing: copyright has always been a bit broken but we never noticed
August 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · future, ideas
Tweet I was chatting to someone at a party on Saturday night about copyright. The gentleman I was chatting with was strongly in favour of strict enforcement of copyright. He was advocating fining people who share copyright material online. It got me thinking. Once you consider the problem in offline terms it seems that many [...]
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