Alienation and the culture of terrorism

I flicked the TV on late last night just to have a few minutes with a cup of tea before I went to bed. Normal programs on every chanel except 7 which was showing live images from London. It didn’t look too good but it took a while to work out that there had been...

What we think of our leaders

Leon Gettler wrote recently The Boss is an ass. He was referring to a Melbourne Business School survey. He notes Rankings of the chief’s competence and understanding of the business have plummeted over the past three years, from 4.36 per cent to 1.55 per cent....

The dangers of culture change efforts

The Woodside culture chane program is over and some of those involved wonder whether it pushed to hard. The quote is from Helen Trinca’s introduction to her article in the this month’s BOSS magazine. This was a lighthouse iniative[pdf] sponsored by former...

An industrial relations dream

Finally someone is talking sense regarding the Australian federal government’s industrial relations reform agenda. Tom Skotnicki [subscription required], writing in this week’s Business Review Weekly [Australia] makes the point that Federal Opposition...

Extroverted Introvert

Calendar Girl remakrs that “she is as introverted as she is extroverted. ” chriscurnow.com never thought of that possibility before. For most of his life he has regarded himself as introverted on the basis of his shyness. More recently he has become...