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Human Skills Are Our True Differentiator

For years we have been saying, “Learning will be more important than knowing and success will be enjoyed by those that learn the fastest, not by those that know the most” Today, I found myself saying, “Learning IS more important than knowing” In the SMH article linked below, curiosity and openness are highlighted, along with […]

Employee Engagement Predicts Employee Performance – The Role Of Leaders

Last week I was in Brisbane speaking at a leadership conference about the performance imperative of having happy and engaged workers – I said that such employees make better decisions, show highers levels of customer service, collaborate and innovate far more, make less mistakes and produce work of much higher quality. On top of this, […]

AI: A Main Course of Terror with a Side Dish of Hope or Something Much More Profound?

When we are unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness – Carl Sagan Every client we work with is racing to leverage the gains from AI and transform their value proposition. AI is not a fad and is, perhaps the most fundamental […]

To Be A Value Based Consultancy Or To Scale?

For years I have been saying the #1 profit maximising and growth strategy available to any business, in the mid to long term, is investing in its people. Today, as has been the case for decades, ‘people’ account for more than 65% of the variance in organisational success. Yet most businesses don’t get this investment […]

Is Kindness a Lost Art – A Further Perspective

For 20 years, I have been trying to define the DNA of performance and have written extensively about curiosity, empathy and grit as organisational and personal superpowers. For all my research, I had not thought about how these three qualities overlap with ‘Kindness’ or more so, how empathy, curiosity and grit empower kindness, and in […]

Resilience, Mental Health & Wellbeing: What Could Be More Important?

Most people recognise that our bodies have an automatic stress response. It always surprises people, however, when they learn we have no instinctive relaxation response. To de-stress, we have to actively and deliberately work at relaxing ourselves. This matters, because in any year, 20% of us will suffer from a mental health condition. That’s a […]

Why Personal Brand Must Matter To Data Professionals

I very much enjoyed writing the paper linked below, about how professionals can build an enduring career. More importantly, I hope it reminds us all that living our values is the short-cut to an authentic and rewarding life. Why Personal Brand Must Matter to Data Professionals.

Is Kindness A Lost Art?

Contributing to this article, ‘Is Kindness A Lost Art?’ was difficult and left me feeling vulnerable. There is a terrible sadness in witnessing the head-long rush into narcissistic individualism, rampant consumerism and dog-eat-dog competition. More so, the loss of the ideals of the Enlightenment and its democratic institutions, is truly heartbreaking. While it might not […]

Hopes for 2025 – Storm Asia Article

Wishing everyone; ‘Wisdom & Peace of Mind’ for 2025. Kannan Chandran from STORM-ASIA asked me and others about our hopes and wishes for 2025 and the full article is linked below. My modest contribution is reproduced here: Bertrand Russell said, ‘The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it […]

Anti-Social Media

I was very happy that the team at STORM-ASIA sought my perspective on our (Australian) legislation around children using social media – It is nice to think that Australia is showing leadership on this and it is pleasing that people in Singapore are reporting it without bias or prejudice See the published article here: Anti-Social […]