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 –...