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...

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...

Tracee Hutchinson writing in The Age last Saturday (Infidelity is just not cricket, Shane) rightly points out that Australian criketer Shane Warne's off field behaviour has seriously affected many womens' ability to enjoy the games in which he is involved. Hutchinson...

Muslim cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika has stirred up a hornets nest with his reported statements that Islamic law must, for him, take precedence over Ausralian law. Hmm? Surely all major religions take the same view. Indeed you don't even have to be religious to say that...

Some time ago Robert Gottliebson wrote in BRW magazine "Teach your children not to think of themselves as working for employers but as working for clients." Last week's BRW feature story was entitled Me Inc. [Subscription Required]. I have a lot of support for the...

I flicked the TV on late last night just to have a few minutes with a cup of tea before I went to bed. Normal programs on every chanel except 7 which was showing live images from London. It didn't look too good but it took a while to work out that there had been at...

Leon Gettler wrote recently The Boss is an ass. He was referring to a Melbourne Business School survey. He notes Rankings of the chief's competence and understanding of the business have plummeted over the past three years, from 4.36 per cent to 1.55 per cent. This...

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 Woodside...

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 Leader Kim...

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 convinced that he...