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~ next week I'm off to the Future Summit in Melbourne on 18-19 May. The theme for 2009 is Priorities for Australia in the Crisis and Beyond, and there is a really diverse line-up of speakers (pdf list here). This conference is run by ADC (Australian Davos Connection) &
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~ next week I'm off to the Future Summit in Melbourne on 18-19 May. The theme for 2009 is Priorities for Australia in the Crisis and Beyond, and there is a really diverse line-up of speakers (pdf list here). This conference is run by ADC (Australian Davos Connection) &
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I'll be talking about social networking from a career perspective at the FITT lunch on 13 May in Sydney. This is very topical now with the global financial crisis starting to hit Australia. Our personal & business networks will be critical, not only for staying in touch with
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I'll be talking about social networking from a career perspective at the FITT lunch on 13 May in Sydney. This is very topical now with the global financial crisis starting to hit Australia. Our personal & business networks will be critical, not only for staying in touch with
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I was about to write some more about the networked society but this article by Michael Sainsbury caught my eye: Telstra trauma as tranformation costs mount. This is a sad, but all to common, tale of a large organisation that desperately needs to update its core systems, and to integrate
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I was about to write some more about the networked society but this article by Michael Sainsbury caught my eye: Telstra trauma as tranformation costs mount. This is a sad, but all to common, tale of a large organisation that desperately needs to update its core systems, and to integrate
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We are often exhorted to be passionate about things, especially at work. But I'm not sure that is really what we need in the modern workplace. Passion has become a synonym for other words that are potentially more accurate. Passion is a very excitable emotion. It narrows the
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One of Australia's national pastimes is Telstra bashing - and heaven knows even I've indulged a time or two. But still credit where credit is due. They have been engaging in social media and social networking for a while now and I've come to
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It is true that there is nothing new under the sun (Ecc 1:9) and for those of us old enough to remember computer bureaux the move the cloud computing is an amusing 'back to the future' moment. As Ambrose Bierce said: "There is nothing new under
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At Growthtown last week I gave a brief talk on focus and flexibility and a key idea that came up was that of rabbits. Startups need balance - but it is hard to balance focus on competing needs, lack of resources, maintaining cashflow momentum, while staying flexible to respond to
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Here are the slides that I did not use for my talk at Growthtown earlier in the week - but they do give a flavour of what I actually drew on a whiteboard. Balancing Focus & Flexibility As You Growhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=balancingfocusflexibilityasyougrow-090404092403-phpapp01&stripped_
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With their un-organised approach to management and decision making Quakers are the poster children for collaboration, collective creation and getting things done. Quakers do not have a formal hierarchy and have no single person in control of their society. It is an approach to getting things done that aligns to