All twentieth century movements have outlived their usefulness and are now dead! At least this is the view of modern conservatives. They have given up trying to argue that trade unions, for instance, never had a place. Their argument is that yes, the workers did need...

I'm getting more and more fired up about the Australian Governments proposed changes to the workplace realtions laws. There's a huge amount of hysteria regarding unfair dismissal laws - especially amongst small business owners. The Age this morning uses business...

Bleeding Edge has created a new blog The Razor. The Razor's Edge has just purchased a Mac and seems to be doing everything he can to turn it into a Windows PC. In this post he discusses the shortcomings of Apple OS's Expose - namely that the windows are too small and...

Following up from my post regarding unfair dismissal, there is an interesting thread over at Orgdyne at the moment regarding Diffficult Employees. List moderator Anil Behal struck a chord with this statement: I am struck by the notion of "difficult employees" within...

The Australian government has reecently announced changes to our industrial relations system.

It's quite an amazing journey we set ourselves when we establish our own business. Our current political leaders like John Howard and Peter Costello like to laud those who establish small enterprises but neither of them of had to endure the sleep depriving, blood...

Gay Alcorn, writing in The Age this morning, finds (national government broadcaster) ABC local radio station 774 on the slippery slide to fluffiness. Im not sure what she was so upset about. The ABC is a cultural institution in Australia. Those of us who love it do so...

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In this month's Harvard Business Review, Warren Bennis and James O'Toole examine How Business Schools lost their way (Subscription required). Business schools are on the wrong track. For many years, MBA programs enjoyed rising respectability in academia and growing...

Leon Gettler of The Age has just started his own blog. In this entry he discusses the efforts that several corporations are putting into Corporate Social Responsibility. He singles out the born again approach of GE: GE chief Jeffrey Immelt unveiled GE's...