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There is so much pressure on people these days to be successful. And I do not think we are encouraged to stop and think what success actually means for each of us and for society in general. Many of us seem to be on a treadmill. Go to school, get
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After many weeks of planning with my co-conspirators Selena Griffith, Michelle Williams and Kim Chen we are finally on the eve of the second Social Innovation BarCamp. This venture was a leap of faith for us. At the start we did not know if anyone else had a passion
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Today is Blog Action Day 2010 and the theme is water. Many people are without access to this most basic of human needs. In Australia we need to find ways to conserve the water we so often take for granted. http://www.change.org/widgets/content/petition_scroller_js?width=
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Over the years I worked as a senior manager in large organisations and, more recently, as an educator and business coach for senior managers across private and government organisations. A fascinating phenomenon that comes up in all of those places is, what I've come to call, "the
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Alignment of articulated and enacted values in business The issue of how well an organisation's values align between what they say they are and what they actually do in practise was illustrated very graphically by a large software company this past week. It also shows how difficult it
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It has been very interesting (during the 2010 Australian federal election campaign) to watch people advocating freedom of speech on one hand and then getting upset when people with differing views speak out. The intolerance of opposing points of view has really resonated with me. It makes me a bit
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I'm lucky enough to be attending the Women, Management and Work Conference in Sydney today. There is a great turnout, with many familiar names and faces from around Australia. So far there has been an impressive line-up of speakers. Yet these impressive speakers each talked about the
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The common thread between these items is the importance of communication. And it is the communication by leaders and managers within organisations that signifies to people what standards of thinking and behaviour are acceptable. This communication takes the form of spoken words, behaviours, gestures and also of absence, silence and
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This amusing cat picture was suggested by my buddy @KerrieAnne as a Caturday candidate - it's from a post by Nick Milton titled You wont use it if you can't find it - findability in KM. This struck me as: (a) one very cute cat; (b) one very
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This post was inspired by a humorous post on The Onion, titled: "New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It: Let Someone Else Report On This Bullshit" It was shared by my friend Mark Pesce via Twitter this morning and gave me a chuckle while
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I spent most of my youth and childhood hanging about in public libraries and reading their books. In fact I blame libraries for most of my quirks these days, since it was there that I was exposed to dangerous ideas from philosophers, historians and fiction authors. The local, school and
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It seems appropriate this ANZAC Day to share a good online resource. Thus I commend to people the Australian National Archives site called Mapping our ANZACS. It provides a way to browse 375,971 records of service in the Australian Army during World War I according to the person’s