THE war of the moment – against terrorism – will engender immense change across our political, economic, social, and cultural lives. Some of these changes, such as the demand for higher security at airports, require little thought to understand.
WAR is not necessarily a bad thing. War can be positive in itself and have positive outcomes, depending on what is being attacked and how the attack occurs.
WE residents of the “lucky country” are very slack consumers. Keen, but slack. Our buying criteria are basically: Do I need it? Will the plastic cover it?
NOBODY moves faster than the Generation Xers. Those who were born between 1961 and 1981 are the first generation to create a new economy and then watch it crash – the dot.com experiment.
SMALL is beautiful, so let’s talk big for a moment – big sports.The biggest global sports event turned another corner this month with the election of Belgium’s Dr Jacques Rogge as the 8th president of the International Olympic Committee.
THE loss of trust is arguably the most damning outcome of the 20th century. In many cases the words “trust me” do little more than encourage cynical laughter.
FROM America, that land of increasing desk rage from disk rage (computer meltdowns), comes a modern parable for the career minded. Reflect and, possibly, be amused … with caution.
THE shift from the corporate world, based on the masculine view of everything, to the coming corporate world based on the feminine view of most things will not be an easy transition for many corporate heavies.
ALBERT Einstein, that cool dude with more than a few smarts, said: “the intuitive mind is a sacred gift; the rational mind is a faithful servant – we have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift”.That is changing.
Bernard Salt, Melbourne Director of KPMG Consulting, said it 12 days ago; Dr Peter Ellyard, Futurist and Director of Preferred Futures, said it eight days ago:
BIG is beautiful, powerful, prestigious, and secure in a modern product-driven economy based on growth consumption. Twentieth century business survival was based on expansion.
WHILE a taxonomy for techno personalities sounds like a new GST on nerds and geeks, it is actually an emerging classifi-cation system of the most common personality types as they relate to technology.
SELF-employment in America is dropping rapidly. This “free-agent nation” of management guru Tom Peters is reversing the expectations that the e-lance economy would produce an increase in the number of freelancers and entrepreneurs.
