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Well. If you’re reading this, you, like me, got past Christmas. For me this year it was a really wonderful family time. A really good Christmas. Sad, but good. Christmas has always been an important time in my family. First as a child and then starting our own…

Today I celebrated my 52nd Christmas. It was the first Christmas I have celebrated without either of my parents. So it’s now up to Mum and Dad’s three surviving children to keep up the tradition by ourselves. It’s happy sad. On the one hand it is…

After a hot Christmas Eve eve in Melbourne, it’s been a relatively cool day today. I can’t believe it. I have time to reflect. All of a sudden, time to reflect seems like a very precious commodity.

Orgdyne’s next online workshop, “Team Mirroring, Understanding the Socio-Emotional Dynamics of Group Coaching and Team Building” starts January 24 2005. This is a six week on-line workshop and you can expect paricipants from all over the world. You…

Just before 3pm on Wednesday 15th December, on a beautiful sunny afternoon opposite the Fitzroy Gardens just to the east of Melbourne’s CBD, Marjorie Veronica (Billie) Curnow’s spirit left her stroke ridden body behind, flew out the window and entered the…

Hey, for all those people wondering what’s happened to chriscurnow.com – thanks for the thousands of emails. Well, I’m still here. Right now I’m very, very, very tired. I’ve done it again. I’ve found myself managing an IT project. A…

There’s so much analysis of the US election result it’s hard to know where to start. As a member of Robert Manne’s pro-Labor, left-liberal intelligentsia, I’ve been mainly reading the handwringing by Democratic commentators and followers….

Henry Mintzberg Here’s a book I haven’t read but it is on my wish list. Mintzberg is one of my favourite authors. I’m not sure if I have ever held MBAs in high regard. From the reviews I’ve read Mintzberg is offering his insight into what is…

Voters not ready to trust crash through Latham