Revisiting seminal management reports is like revisiting the rellies – stay too long, look too closely and you will probably see things you don’t want to find.
EXCEPT for Puff the Magic Dragon, many Westerners think the only good dragon is a dead one. Adam and Eve’s honeymoon came to an abrupt halt by a serpent.
If you are not living at the edge, you are taking up too much room. Welcome to the twenty-first century. The edge is increasingly where you will find what really matters.
ASK the PITS – person in the street – seen racing ratlike from appointment to carpark about the use of time and they will say, with profound if hurried conviction: Time is money, mate. The meter is running faster.
Many believe youth is wasted on the young. Others cannot remember their youth – were you part of the sixties? – but still maintain that they were more respectful, responsible, diligent and better cricket players than the youth of today.
AS THE American historian Dr Ashleigh Brilliant commented: “All the evidence concerning the universe has not yet been collected, so there is still hope”.
Ever noticed that when we do not know how to solve a major problem, we do the wrong thing but with twice the zeal, twice the effort and, usually, twice the resources?
If you are one of the growing number of people who are practicing the Luge Strategy for daily survival – lie flat and try not to die – then you had better not be in it just for the money or you might have rather a short run.
I bet you, like me, are not one of the 80% of Australians who love to gamble. We might buy the odd slikpik, or support the footie team raffle, but that is not really gambling, is it?
Big thinkers love to name big things. Eras, for example. The 19th century, with the mighty impact of the industrial revolution is logically enough labelled the industrial era.
Financial systems are not so much an accident waiting to happen,” says Martin Wolf, the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, “as one that is constantly happening.”
Are you a bullying boss? Do you drive your employees to reach unrealistic deadlines, and demand greater productivity with less resourcing in these competitively tough times?
