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Willing on the minnows
Like many, I have been willing on the ‘minnows’ in the current World Cup of cricket. Of the 14 nations participating, 8 have full test playing status and so half the initial pool games involve an...
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Lessons from history – part one
When I was training to be a teacher back in the mid 80s, I remember marking my first set of (Economics) essays. I was excited to see what my first batch of students had written – had they understood...
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Lessons from history – part two (the conclusion)
In my previous post I related the story of my history teacher Peter Sibley, who we suspected was not exactly reading every (any?) word of our essays, over 30 years ago. 15 years pass. I am now a...
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Why walking is the right thing to do
WALKER: One of the most famous ‘walkers’ was Adam Gilchrist, the Aussie keeper-batsman (he even called his memoirs ‘Walking to Victory’) “It’s not the cheating that got me, it was the feeling I had got...
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Trad media got prosh
Last week the PROSH students were out and about in their fancy dress, collecting money for charity ($150,000 all told) and distributing their newspapers at almost every intersection into and out of...
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Richie
Looking back, it seems odd that an Aussie would be anchoring live cricket on TV in England from the 1960s onwards. 50 years and 500 test matches in all. Could the old dart not find a homegrown talent...
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San Francisco, not SF, San Fran or Frisco
PRICELESS: While at Dropbox HQ I see a guy dropping off boxes Don’t call San Francisco ‘San Fran’, ‘SF’ or ‘Frisco’ – the locals never refer to their city that way, you only look like a tourist. Which...
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Knowing when to stop loss
The ‘stop loss‘ decision is one of the hardest to make, whether it’s in management, sport, or in life generally. When something is not going well, your early inkling can be put any nerves down to...
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Advice for entering business awards
When I ran my own business I found that one of the best ways to get a free kick with media is to win business awards. When our business was a fragile 6 month old we won the ‘Best E-Commerce...
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The genius of David Letterman
I’ve been a David Letterman fan since I first saw his shows in the late 1980s. I loved the irreverent send-ups, self deprecating humour, the sharp quick wit. It was New Yorker wise cracking, stand up...
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Behaviours are set early
The passing of Alan Bond this week has made many think back to the decade of the ’80s with its big hair and even bigger, brasher entrepreneurs. It was the decade that saw a new generation of leaders...
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#GObama
Having just returned from his hometown of Chicago, I must declare that I have long admired Barack Obama. I was (frankly) amazed, and delighted, when he was elected President of the United States in...
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Why short term thinking is destructive
One of my favourites quotations from economist John Maynard Keynes was “in the long run, we are all dead.” He made this quip to pour scorn on those who thought the problems of the day were...
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Why your LinkedIN profile needs a good photo
I was lazily scrolling through LinkedIN the other day and got to that bit where people who you may know are served up to you as in some professional speed dating site (not that I know what that looks...
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How I judge a pitch
I’ve had to pitch in my time, and I’ve seen a few pitches (real and for competitions), and occasionally someone comes to pitch their startup business idea to me. When judging the value of a pitch,...
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The Internet in real time
Click the animation to open the full version (via http://pennystocks.la/). This animation keeps things in perspective! Watch as the number of tweets, youtube posts and watches, Linkedin searches,...
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Farewell Jon Stewart, #jonvoyage
Jonathan Stuart Lebowitz (aka Jon Stewart), from New Jersey, the world’s foremost satirist, did his final ‘Daily Show’ this week, after 16 years spent poking fun at, and laying bare, political...
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Newspaper circulation falls, and falls, and falls (again)
The latest newspaper circulation figures for Australian media organisations make for more sorry reading. Every title, no matter how they try to dress it up (and, boy, have they tried) is in the red,...
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Ecosystem done. What Perth startups need now are success stories
Almost exactly three years ago I attended the first Startup Weekend in Perth. 100 plucky individuals bought tickets to attend. 40 or so got up on Friday night to make a 1-minute pitch (if they went...
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Beware the superchickens
International businesswoman Margaret Heffernan took to the TED stage a few months ago in Monterey, CA, to deliver an impassioned plea to business to remove the ‘superchicken’ culture. ‘Success comes...
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