family holiday
July 19th, 2010
Over the July holidays, the engineer and I travelled to Queensland to celebrate my older son Mike’s 30th birthday. We had decided that my two Melbourne-based sons should join us at Mermaid Beach for a few days to celebrate (as Melbourne would be too cold at this time of the year!) My grandson Kalani turned [...]
leadership forum
July 2nd, 2010
Last Wednesday I attended, along with 300 others, a leadership forum at the Opera House. The speakers were Sir Stephen Tindall, from the Warehouse and Rod Drury from Xero. They both gave the audience valuable insight into their ideas of successful leadership in their own business experience. Stephen listed the following important points; firstly the [...]