Rabbits, focus & flexibility
Kate Carruthers 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…
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Balancing focus & growth as you grow.
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…
Collaboration, collective creation & getting things done
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…
Social networking in the office
We had interesting discussions about many things last night at the ACS meeting in Wollongong. But one discussion in particular – about the use of social networking platforms in the…
BarCamp, Community & New Ways
Having recently seen the film, I’m now reading the comic novel Watchmen. It is the kind of fiction that really gets you thinking about many things. A great quote from…
Key enablers for Enterprise 2.0
– some more thoughts following on from the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. Here is my list of the top 10 enablers for Enterprise 2.0 – this is not an exhaustive…
Reasonable Hours of Work in the ICT Industry
A friend who works in IT support (for a very large and well known IT industry multi national doing security patching and stuff) just phoned me because his boss wants…
Out and about – Robyn Henderson & Gordon Bell
In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who…
Women and getting ahead in business
Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: “Honey, you must be very young. It’s not just about how hard you work. The ole’ boy’s network…
Article: Businesses don’t have social responsibilities; people do
This article has been reproduced in full below, it raises some very important issues about corporate and individual responsibility. Even staff in the Nazi concentration camps were assisted in rationalising…