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What's real and what's not
"Sometimes life happens and you can't stop it. Now is that time. When it happens, you discover where true love lies, and where it never existed." A good friend said this very recently in response to a significant life event. It got me thinking about how
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Protecting babies: whooping cough vaccination boosters for adults
Many people who were vaccinated as children do not realise that by the time we're all grown up some of our protection no longer works. In the case of whooping cough, or pertussis, the protection can wane in as little as six to ten years. This means that
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Bad idea: updating products for no real benefit to the consumer
I've been a product manager and been to business school. We all learned about the cows, dogs and stars via the BCG Growth-Share Matrix. But there comes a time when so-called innovation is just annoying to your consumers. That happens when you take a product that is working
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Trying too hard?
civil society
Findings of the UWS Challenging Racism research
Starting in 1998, a UWS research project has been in progress on the geography of racism in NSW. * While racism is quite prevalent in Australian society its occurrences differ from place to place. * These variations have been largely overlooked by anti-racism campaigns in Australia. * Most Australians recognise that racism is
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Interesting perspective on war, innovation, skills and strategy from Col. John Boyd
This rare video of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd shows his 1991 House Armed Services Committee Testimony and is worth watching. Many consider him to be one of the best strategic thinkers of the twentieth century and his ideas have influenced many of today's leading strategists. Of
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Truth, transparency and consequences
Truth is said to be a double edged sword. Yet truth is only a problem if one is trying to hide something. The Wikileaks saga shows how difficult is has become to keep secrets in our hyperconnected world. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
civil society
Democracy in action, civil society and political change
Yesterday in New South Wales there was a major shift in the state's political landscape. We saw a significant shift in voting with enormous swings against the ALP across the state and especially in traditional heartland seats. The Liberals won seats in which they'd never imagined
startups
Interview with 2 of my favourite entrepreneurs @jason @garyvee
If you've got time it's worth taking some of it to watch this interview with Jason and Gary. Jason Calacanis, himself a serial entrepreneur, is a great supporter of startups with his LAUNCH Conference. Gary Vaynerchuk is a well known entrepreneur who built up his family
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happy election Caturday #nswvotes
A nap might be a good idea after we vote today for those folks in NSW, and it might be a good idea in general too?
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Why the wiki revolution is real via @dtapscott
This is a fascinating interview by Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) with Don Tapscott (@dtapscott). Tapscott discusses the potential upside and downside of collaborative revolutions for societies around the world and the implications for dissent, noting that: "the Internet radically drops the cost of dissent"