Floods, community spirit and Australia #qldfloods
Kate Carruthers Along with most other Australians I have been moved and disturbed by the unfolding flood disaster in northern Australia. The floods are said to cover an area of Australia the…
Innovation – does it make sense for business?
Every business book I pick up nowadays seems to accept as a fundamental premise that innovation is a good thing and that it should be pursued relentlessly. But I’ve been…
Ai lubz eet wen teh diffurent speeshees kome 2gethur.
Yeah it’s not a LOLcat but it IS cute …
Rebooting business and capitalism
Last year with the launch of Social Innovation Sydney I was inspired by the idea of rebooting capitalism. I had become depressed about the nature of business in our world…
LeWeb 2010 Wrap up
I rather suspect that some of the locals regard LeWeb as a kind of blowsy aunt who arrives in whirl, talks too loudly, drinks a bit too much, pinches their…
Christmas in Paris
I like Paris in winter – there are not too many tourists and the queues to get into museums and galleries are much shorter. Of course, in 2010 western Europe…
On this Christmas Eve in Paris
I contemplate the year past and the year to come and think on how I want my life to be. What do I want my life to stand for? Not…
Flanders mud is pretty bad too
Recently I visited the site in Flanders where John McCrae wrote the famouns pomen In Flanders Fields. It is at the Essex Farm Aid Station only a few kilometres from…