Blogs

Aug 24
2 min

How To Write a Compelling Blurb

Immediately after picking up a book, the thing most people go to read first is the blurb on the back. It’s one of the most powerful...

Jun 8
2 min

5 "A's" for a BRIGHT Professional Future

My phone rings, and I smile. It’s a client of four years, who is now a professional friend. We haven’t spoken for six months. In this...

May 25
2 min

6 Types of Relationships We Need for Our Wellbeing

It’s Sunday morning, and I’ve just returned home from a community meeting where I freely gave some of my time. It felt really good! Now,...

Dec 22, 2021
1 min

Our end of year message and your gift

Season greetings... while working at Microsoft within International IT, I learned how the Gates Foundation through education was ending...

Nov 12, 2021
3 min

What is the Metaverse? What is Facebook's involvement?

‘The next major technological platform for creative expansion of the mind will be cyberspace, or more specifically the Metaverse, a...

Nov 5, 2021
2 min

The MACRO consequences of our low level of trust?

"If you want to change the world, the go home and love your family." - Mother Teresa Our interconnected, changing world has seen more...

Oct 29, 2021
2 min

The benefits beyond emissions for NET ZERO (originally published in CEO WORLD)

'Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.’ – Lord Robertson The Australian...

Oct 21, 2021
3 min

It is freedom eve, why does our family have anxiety?

Melbourne is almost out of lockdown, but I can't help but feel that some of us will be still in it. I am a positive person. I am that...

Sep 24, 2021
3 min

How a late-night in Spain originated in Finding A Better Way

"The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking." - Peter Senge We were on...

Sep 10, 2021
5 min

How I wrote a book with a stranger, 2700kms away and the ten things I learnt

"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the...

Aug 27, 2021
2 min

S-Curves and their digital application

'David's book has been triggered by the digital transformation but it delves more into human actions and interactions. The author draws...

Aug 19, 2021
2 min

I now have a vaccination certificate, but this raises other questions …

'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' - Aristotle It is Sunday at 4 pm, and I have just returned from a...

Aug 14, 2021
2 min

How I escaped the 2020 Australian lockdown for Europe

'Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out' - Martin Scorsese Last year in the Melbourne long 150 day stretch of...

Jul 27, 2021
3 min

My vaccine experience - I thought Pfizer would be cold but it wasn't!

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela An inspirational video above of Dame Sarah Gilbert receiving a...

Jul 14, 2021
2 min

Downstream, Upstream Thinking and Understanding Their Loops

"I don’t want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones." - Satya Nadella Downstream and upstream thinking; often due to...

May 21, 2021
2 min

Our new book “Finding A Better Way” has FREE advance copies available for review!

The first review from an international editor - “I think it's incredible. I don't remember when I was last so challenged by a book - but...

May 14, 2021
2 min

A glimpse into our smart connected future

As technology advances, devices will incorporate smart services in the future. Whether your phone, car, clothing, glasses or watch, the...

May 7, 2021
1 min

The dangers of DESIGN, LEAN and AGILE ways of working

"An organisation's ability to learn and translate those learnings into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage" - Jack Welch...

Apr 16, 2021
2 min

Setting the conditions for successful Innovation

This blog is inspired by a book I have read three times, "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson, that details Silicon Valley's history. This...

Mar 28, 2021
2 min

The blog is evolving with videos

Last week I sent out a blog with a one-minute video, and some of you really liked it; thanks for the kind messages.