Last month's Harvard Business Review features a piece by Peter Drucker on What makes an effective executive [payment required] (also reprinted in this morning's Australian Financial Review). Drucker lists eight characteristics of an effective executive from his 65...

Tony Fitzgerald, most famous for his role heading Queensland's (Australia) anti-corruption enquiry has a passionate piece in The Age this morning regarding the disappearance of ethics in the Australian political process. He argues: "When leaders fail to set and follow...

This is a story about a school, a teacher and a group of students. The school is a girls' high school in the suburbs of Melbourne. This area is quite middle class and many of the school's patrons think of it as a state grammar school. Indeed many of the girls have a...

US wharehouse club retailer reduces labour costs by paying employees more. (via Kottke)

Bullying in the Workplace - Canada Safety Council Totalitarian States of Mind by Gordon Lawrence The Abrasive Executive & Corporate Paralysis by Laura Crawshaw Yager Leadership & Team Development: Bullies in Unions by Ed Yager All links courtesy of Orgdyne

As expected, Farenheit 9/11 is a hot topic for discussion. Jason Kottke's recent piece on it led me to thinking about what is good documentary. I am not much of a fan of Moore's work - although I have not seen or read any of it. What I have read from others has...

I've just discovered Michael Lewis, author of, among many other titles, Moneyball and Liar's Poker. (Thanks again to Bleeding Edge.) Lewis' work challenges a lot of currently accepted market thinking - particularly the very recent idea that corporations exist alone to...

Thanks to Charles Wright over at Bleeding Edge for pointing out this New York Times article which discusses fear in the workplace and the bullying boss. "It got to where I was twitching, literally, on the way into work," said Carrie Clark, 52, a former teacher and...

It's funny how life can jump up and hit you in the face. I had my day mapped out today. I was planning to do my least favourite activity - calling people to market a new workshop I've developed. I went to my favourite cafe to psych myself into it and had a great...

I've just been going over some of Henry Mintzberg's writing and came acros this article (payment required, sorry) by Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunai Basu. The authors argue that the notion of 'shareholder value' to the exclusion of all other accountabilities of...