If you’ve been a manager for any period of time, I’m guessing you’ve had a day like this:x recruiting for that vacant role for the third time in 6 months. Yet again, it’s a pile of resumes from the desperate and dateless x there’s a faint smell of a grass fire...
When Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he enforced a rule that teams had to be small. “If it can’t be fed with two large pizzas, the team is too big.” Harvard psychologists agree – “Big teams usually wind up just wasting everybody’s time.” In the aftermath of the...
The 2020 Closing the Gap report was released last week. It shows that less than one third of the Federal Government’s targets have been achieved. In some areas, Indigenous Australia is losing ground. Interesting timing, coinciding with the Alice Springs launch of the...
It’s that time of the year when most of us become introspective about the year ahead. Can I ask though, does that include some retrospection on 2019? What secret (or not so secret) messages did the universe deliver you in 2019? Knowledge is power and knowing this...
I have shared these words in a number of places this week, including in the media, in response to the omnipresent divide being driven through Alice Springs. The current unrest has come after the death of an Aboriginal man in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community...
Say I’m serving in the final moments of an evenly matched grand slam tennis final and what I do now could decide the match. I make an unforced error. If I’m not careful about my self-talk, it turns into two errors, then three and so on. It’s the same for your...