Testing Theory X and Theory Y

Kevin Donnelly tirelessly argues the case that our schools are failing. He was at it in The Age again recently with this piece. Donnelly’s argument basically goes that schools have been taken over by leftist progressives who are "committed to overthrowing...

Is femminism dead?

All twentieth century movements have outlived their usefulness and are now dead! At least this is the view of modern conservatives. They have given up trying to argue that trade unions, for instance, never had a place. Their argument is that yes, the workers did need...

Unfair unfair dismissal laws

I’m getting more and more fired up about the Australian Governments proposed changes to the workplace realtions laws. There’s a huge amount of hysteria regarding unfair dismissal laws – especially amongst small business owners. The Age this morning...

Mouse vs Keyoard

Bleeding Edge has created a new blog The Razor. The Razor’s Edge has just purchased a Mac and seems to be doing everything he can to turn it into a Windows PC. In this post he discusses the shortcomings of Apple OS’s Expose – namely that the windows...

Difficult Employees

Following up from my post regarding unfair dismissal, there is an interesting thread over at Orgdyne at the moment regarding Diffficult Employees. List moderator Anil Behal struck a chord with this statement: I am struck by the notion of “difficult...