As you may have gathered, chriscurnow.com is re-reading Synchronicity at the moment. I read something this morning that reminded me of the poem Our Greatest Fear by Marianne Williamson (quoted by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech.) So much of our work lives…
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Deep Conversations
A colleague and I are currently planning a forum for leaders. At our most recent planning session, my colleague brought along her copy of Synchronicty. A book I love but had allowed to slip to the back of my mind. I had lent my copy to a friend so hadn’t read it…
The young rich paupers
chriscurnow.com this week finally got around to opening his copy of BRW’s Young Rich issue. In many ways it’s hard going. Lots of thirty year-olds giving the secrets of their “success”. As if these 30 y.o.’s know what…
Death Sentence
I have just added Death Sentence by Don Watson, to the Bookshelf.
New category in Bookshelf
I have found an increasing number of books on my bookshelf in the category “waiting to be read.” I keep buying books even though I don’t have time to read them all. Talking to a few people over the weekend, I realise this is a common problem. As a…
Policy vs Public Administration
Dr Patrick Coghlan, National Transplantation Services Manager, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, raised a wide range of ethical issues and challenges for organisation development practitioners at the OD Australia AGM last Wednesday. One of the many that raised our…
Caring fulfillment
Catherine Fox, in this month’s BOSS magazine reviews Anne Manne’s book Motherhood. I’m saddened by her undoubtably accurate observation: I’m happy to agree with Manne’s conclusion that our obsession with work has gone too far –…
The right place, the right time, the right outcome
I have had several conversations lately regarding the loneliness of leadership. Most of these have involved people struggling to get a new business idea off the ground. You look around and you see new, seemingly successful businesses springing up everywhere. Quite…
A – E ranking is a fail
The Australian federal education minister, Brendan Nelson has embarked on an exercise in populist political power by demanding all schools in Australia issue reports ranking students against their class mates. There is no doubt parents find it hard to understand…