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Geographically Embarrassed Businesses

By brendan at 12 August, 2009, 6:01 pm

Geographically Embarrassed. Its a euphemism for being lost. Whenever you go wandering about in the bush on an Army exercise, individuals or groups are sure to get lost. In my my experience, the first assumption made when you realise you are lost is that the map was wrong. Unfortunately it [...]

Getting more done in lean times

By brendan at 19 June, 2009, 12:50 pm

Last week I wrote an email that started off with “Sorry I’ve taken a while to get back to you, I have been swamped lately”. Not the first time I have written those words lately, and I don’t reckon I’m an orphan either. Because the GFC, like any garden variety recession, always seem to end [...]

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 [...]

Acknowledge!

By admin at 6 May, 2008, 1:06 pm

I grew up on old war movies, especially movies with fighter pilots, such as the Battle of Britain In fact up until the age of 13 I thought I was going to be a fighter pilot. I badly wanted to to be wearing a leather helmet and goggles, and saying things like “Roger Wilco, Over [...]