Upgrading to MindX
By brendan at 24 November, 2009, 2:56 pm
I had coffee with Dan Dobos last week who’s been busy launching his new business, Office Autopilot in Australia, which is a wonderful web based marketing engine that combines offline and online seamlessly – eg a an enquiry from your website automatically generates a printed card that gets sent out. As an [...]
Read More >>6 steps to Blog Heaven
By brendan at 9 April, 2009, 10:10 am
The another day Amanda Gome rang me for some advice on how to run her business to have a chat about some future events. We got to talking about blogging and how difficult it was. I was in the first group of Bloggists for Smartcompany (around 20 of us) of which there is now only [...]
Read More >>Failing or Flailing?
By admin at 12 May, 2008, 10:16 am
In the late 80’s when I was training to be an Army Reserve Officer, one of the major training (and leadership development) techniques that had a major impact on me was ownership of failure. If you taught a lesson and more than a handful of people failed the quick test at the end, then you [...]
Read More >>Tools to support creativity
By brendan at 14 March, 2007, 5:05 am
Twelve months ago, I started having a conversation with colleagues about putting on a sporting event. The conversation fluttered about for most of the year, occasionally gaining energy but constantly changing focus on what was important. I had to speak to many people about priorities and who would be involved.
Now considering I have had nothing [...]


