by chriscurnow | Sep 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
This “seeing with fresh eyes” exercise is something I often use when I find myself stuck or I think my client is stuck. When I’m stuck I can make decisions but I’m not confident about them. They might be OK or they might not, either way they...
by chriscurnow | Apr 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
There’s nothing like a crisis to focus our attention. We saw that recently here in Victoria on Black Saturday where all the emergency agencies, the government and a great proportion of the community could think of nothing else. On a wider scale, the global...
by chriscurnow | Feb 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Spiral Path has linked to Michael Lewis on several occasions. In this piece, Lewis gives his take on what went wrong on Wall Street. In the introduction he reminds us of his three years at Salomon Brothers: To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment...
by chriscurnow | Feb 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
I have to pause for thought to remember the events of the last few days around me. As I sat in air-conditioned comfort last Saturday, Australia suffered its worst ever natural disaster with at least 170 people having lost their lives and the towns of Marrysville and...
by chriscurnow | Jan 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s pretty scary reading the papers and listening to the news these days. We are all left wondering how this current downturn will play itself out. Unfortunately I don’t have a crystal ball and make no claim to any ability to predict the future. I...
by chriscurnow | Jul 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
Big changes are happening at The Spiral Path. I have moved the blog to a much more robust server. Some of you have reported some problems with links to the site. That should pretty much be a thing of the past. The elves are still working away at tweaking everything...
