Talking at the Online Social Networking and Business Collaboration Conference
My session at the Online Social Networking and Business Collaboration Conference is on at 3.10 pm today in Sydney
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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 him to work overnight to do a release and then to front up to work again early tomorrow morning. This
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 spoke at the FITT networking session, and the second was Gordon Bell who spoke at the AVCAL breakfast.
Each of
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 is alive and well - you just haven't reached a high enough level
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 terrible acts because they were only following orders. Thus they could abrogate individual responsibility to act in humane ways. We
More on Bullies @ work
Recently I posted on bullies @ work & made some fairly harsh comments about a colleague who had been doing this sort of thing often and openly. The other day I actually had some time to talk with this person and discovered that they had been going through a very difficult
The great maternity leave debate
I do not have children, nor do I plan to reproduce - so I suppose you could say I have no skin in this particular game. But I've been thinking about the debates around maternity leave and the low birthrate that have occurred recently in Australia.
The key problem