One mantra that I like to repeat over and over when I speak to people about the power of social networking and web 2.0 is that ‘if we all knew what we all knew, we’d be unstoppable.’ In other words, one of the greatest limitations that most companies and individuals face when searching for information [...]
Diff-functional (n): Differently Functional
I had a great conversation with Ken Wallace on the weekend, who’s not only a cracking screenwriter but also has the pleasure of being my brother-in-law. He has recently had his second child, and was saying how he thinks in general people consider the way that they parent, ‘normal’. Everyone else does it incorrectly or [...]
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The power (or at least the omnipresence) of the internet
I came across the following video the other day: JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. This is a fascinating look at the amount of data seen, generated, and shared over the internet. Two things jumped out at me from this video. The first is just how powerful the internet is [...]
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Get them while they're hypnotised
I met recently with a fascinating guy – Jonathan Marshall – who among being variously talented and qualified in many fields, is currently doing some hugely exciting work in the early childhood space. He shared with me some research findings that blew my mind; and I wanted to share just one FYI. Forgive me if [...]
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Too much efficiency? There's a flip for you!
Just read an article in BRW (from last November, actually – thanks waiting room magazines!) that made a fascinating point about efficiency. For years now – during the ‘high years’, as I call them – the mantra in supply chain management has been ‘efficiency, efficiency, efficiency’. And by efficiency, people meant less suppliers, less time [...]
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Change or get out
In life there are two approaches to inspiring change: carrots and sticks. A Rhode Island school has taken the rather ‘stick-ish’ approach of firing every member of staff because they wouldn’t go along with the (awesome) plan to fix the ailing institution. Wow – I didn’t know we were allowed to do this. Look out, [...]
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Future Proof: Genetically Modified Teams
Have you ever had a colleague or employee that just didn’t fit? You know what I mean, when they just don’t seem to “get” things the way you “get” them. I have and recently is occurred to me that they really did see the world from a different perspective. And I don’t mean they had [...]
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Future Proof: Sexist pigs?
Imagine spending 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to solve a problem only to make it worse, not better. That sounds a bit like marriage doesn’t it? Just kidding! (I hope my wife doesn’t read my blog.) I am talking about the futile attempts of many Australian companies to recruit women into [...]
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Future Proof: Twitter-induced paranoia
It was an absolute train wreck. The who’s who of the marketing industry had gathered in a mega-ballroom in an over-priced US desert resort on the outskirts of Phoenix to hear what we all believed would be a life-changing presentation from a well respected marketing mind. There was only one problem. Twitter!You see there is [...]
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Change the way you think
Last weekend as I was reading the Sunday paper I came across this brilliant and funny article by Richard Glover. In it, Richard conducts a simple thought experiment. He asks us to imagine what we would think of inventions if they occurred in reverse order. For instance, how would we feel about landlines, if they [...]