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March 6, 2008

Leading from Deep Places

One of the hats I wear is as the Regional Director of ACOM, and I want to recommend to you this excellent opportunity for study or professional development coming up in Perth. We always whine here in Perth about the top line people not travelling out here, so here’s something excellent for you in [...]

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December 19, 2007

my Christmas gift to you…

For those guys out there…  I’d like to help you all become better men and husbands, so here’s my Christmas gift to you…  I’m going to pass onto you the SINGLE BIGGEST tip I can give you to help you have a VERY happy Christmas, and it involves something you can do for your wives.
 
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November 28, 2007

getting things done versus looking like you’re getting things done

“Never mistake motion for action.”  – Ernest Hemingway

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November 26, 2007

post-calamity politics

well, after a seriously total wipe-out of the coalition this weekend (wow!), it’s been fascinating to see all the reports of key liberal figures declaring that they knew it was going to be that way, which begs the question why they didn’t do something to change that…  the stupid elephant in the room of howard’s [...]

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why bother?

“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.”  - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M “Post-It” Notepads. the above quote sums up the counter-intuitive nature of much scientific endeavour, and probably a lot of [...]

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November 24, 2007

Where’s my happy ending?

An interesting quote from British politician Enoch Powell: “All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.
Probably applies equally to a great many professions, including boxing…

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November 23, 2007

regrets

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”— Mark Twain 

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