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…
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Fate vs Destiny
We were at the AHRI dinner the other night. A gala event by any standard and we were delighted to make the acquaintence of Colin and Patrina. During the course of the conversation we started discussing the difference between Fate and Destiny. Just semantics perhaps,…
Love at Work
We’ve just been reading World Vision Australia CEO, Tim Costello’s chapter in the recent Australian Institute of Management publication, Love @ Work. It looks like we’ve been reading pretty much the same books as Tim over the last five years. Well,…
BOSS True Leaders list
August means leaders for AFR BOSS. Each year in August BOSS publishes its True Leaders List. This year is the sixth edition of the list. One of the things it does for Spiral Path is to make us stop and think about how our feelings about leadership have developed over…
Sex at work
Friday’s Financial Review carried an article entitled “Sex Case: It was friendly”* The article is about a sexual harassment case brought by a partner in one of Australia’s (and the world’s) largest companies “alleging ‘a…
The Doomsday Scenario
As a teenager in 1969, I was on holiday in Perth with my family staying with my father’s parents in their old home. One morning something happened that I remember vividly but I think I have never spoken of before. I was thinking about waking up and drifting in…
Telstra’s Shareholder Value
Hmmm, Telstra has decided not to proceed with its FTTN rollout. Interesting use of the Shareholder Value concept. SpiralPath understands that Shareholder Value is supposed to be a solution to the agency question. That is the “principal” (ie owner) wants to…
Maslow’s Hierarchy
Why do we organise? I’ve been thinking about this question lately. A more fundamental questions is why do we work? A lot of people would laugh at this question with the simple response “we work to earn money.” I was discussing this with a client…
Welcome to The Spiral Path
Welcome! I am pleased to let you know this blog has a new name – The Spiral Path chriscurnow.com has been going through a revamp over the last few months. You may have notice that typing chriiscunow.com into your browser took you to a website about me. I am…