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...