I was deliberating a day or 3 ago about wrongs and rights, in the covid-lockdown context. Questions emerged for me from the everyday conversations I am having with family and friends about the wrongs and rights associated with ‘lockdowns’. Coming of course from those that inhabit the world’s most locked…

‘Ambition enough to be clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.’ (Locke). The quote above is the first line you’ll read in the About section of my LinkedIn Profile. I accept that it’s not the usual opening ‘About’ line…

“The process is so complex and multidimensional, so fluid and transforming, that the persons initially labelled leaders or followers come to succeed each other, merge with each other, substitute for each other. Leader and follower roles become ephemeral, transient and even indistinct.” As part of my quest to understand and…

Writer’s Note: This piece is an expanded version of an earlier Muse produced for Juno Institute’s Monthly Journal. If you are interested in subscribing to the Journal here’s a link. https://junoinstitute.com.au/juno-journal/ There’s always interesting leadership content in it. If you don’t already know, I am a Melburnian. If you are…

“The fragile consensus which links the Australian community can be shattered if we fail to grasp the interdependence of the skilled and unskilled, rich and poor, market sector and convivial sector. It is essential to recognise the need for employers, trade unions, major political parties and all levels of government…

This piece began life as a few sketch notes early on a Monday morning (7 September 2020), to help me reset and refocus to face week #25 of lock down courtesy of Covid-19, in Melbourne, Australia. For most of this crazy year I’ve had a copy of Ryan Holiday’s &…

Yesterday, 3 August 2020, was as good a day as any to Muse. Today, here is the completed version. In sharing it my thought is, it might just help someone else. Yesterday I awoke to Stage 4 level Covid-19 restrictions, along with somewhere around 5 million other Australians, who also…

I have arrived at a point in my Covid-19 induced sabbatical that says: beyond ‘ethics’ not being a dirty word, ‘ethics’ is potentially one of the best words and one of the most important words right now. …

I really didn't want to write an article during Covid-19 so as not to add to the firehose of information and opinion doing the rounds. But having read an opinion piece last evening, I just had to share it. …