Blogs

Dec 21, 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...

Dec 2, 2021
2 min

How we can all be more Cyber educated

Like many people, I am Cyber aware, but I wouldn’t consider myself Cyber educated. Last month I began a course with Harvard remotely on...

Nov 25, 2021
2 min

The three optimistic strategic initiatives for 2022, plus a non-negotiable

I am offering 45-minute consultations to organisations to discuss their DOS (more about this below); feel free to contact me. What are...

Nov 18, 2021
2 min

What can we learn from Australia’s most popular political leader?

‘Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.’ – Constance Wu In 2019, while appearing on the...

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...

Oct 6, 2021
2 min

'Finding A Better Way' in our highly interconnected and interdependent world

‘If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.’ - Larry Dixon Systems thinking explores how the world is...

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...

Sep 3, 2021
2 min

Digital is all about change, and it starts with some important questions

‘If I had some idea of the finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?’ - Bill Gates Since the 31st of October, I...

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...

Aug 13, 2021
3 min

If you only ever read one of my blogs, this is it … what to consider for your digital business

'The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.’ - Jeff Bezos The ultimate digital business has customer...

Aug 6, 2021
2 min

The different types of technology; their strategic importance, and the security consequences

‘In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.’ - Seth Godin There has been much talk 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 23, 2021
2 min

Interim business modes can qualify scale at a reducing marginal cost

"Successful innovation leaders cannot allow strategic conversations to stop at the aspirational level. They must insist on drilling down...

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...

Jul 9, 2021
2 min

The importance of internal leadership for digital success

"Steve Jobs didn’t really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs, but he did the more important part of turning them into a...