The dangers of culture change efforts

The Woodside culture chane program is over and some of those involved wonder whether it pushed to hard. The quote is from Helen Trinca’s introduction to her article in the this month’s BOSS magazine. This was a lighthouse iniative[pdf] sponsored by former...

An industrial relations dream

Finally someone is talking sense regarding the Australian federal government’s industrial relations reform agenda. Tom Skotnicki [subscription required], writing in this week’s Business Review Weekly [Australia] makes the point that Federal Opposition...

Extroverted Introvert

Calendar Girl remakrs that “she is as introverted as she is extroverted. ” chriscurnow.com never thought of that possibility before. For most of his life he has regarded himself as introverted on the basis of his shyness. More recently he has become...

Time to be idle

Maybe it’s our age, but chriscurnow.com feels he needs more time to be idle. Don’t get us wrong. We don’t ever want to stop working. We have an ambition to be still working into our 80s. However we want to do a different type of work. Sitting and...

The world didn’t stop

The other day I saw a duck … It was dead. But The world didn’t stop I did. But everyone kept going I laughed. No-one else laughed Because they though it was funny It was sad Wasn’t it? Chris Curnow,...