Education at Election Time

It is election time here in Victoria with Steady Steve and Big Ted fighting out to see who will govern our state for the next four years. On just about our favourite topic of all time — Education — it’s heartbreaking to see the two main political...

Wounds to the Soul

I wonder if you are carrying a wounded soul? We start out with such ideals — entrepreneurs in particular, if you class yourself in that category. But life has a way of presenting us with such huge dilemmas. I was moved to think about this after reading Ian...

Being Still

My apologies for the absence here for such a long time. It is over a month since I posted. How can that be? How time flies. I’ve been thinking about standing still. Well perhaps not standing still in the pejorative sense, perhaps more being still. Being still...

Creating Shareholder Value

We are fascinated with this month’s lead article in Harvard Business Review Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value (subscription required for full article but you can get the abstract here or contact me for more details.) In one way, we really wonder how...

Easy Answers

Perhaps the most fundamental quest in human history has been to find ‘the path to a fulfilled life.’ Throughout time, men and women  have sought to address this question at various levels of depth. For some it has been a shallow ‘tell me...