by chriscurnow | Oct 30, 2005 | Uncategorized
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...
by chriscurnow | Oct 30, 2005 | Uncategorized
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...
by chriscurnow | Oct 19, 2005 | Uncategorized
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 –...
by chriscurnow | Sep 4, 2005 | Uncategorized
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...
by chriscurnow | Aug 25, 2005 | Uncategorized
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...