Today’s book review is Flow, the Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I first came across the concept of Flow in my previous job, where it was presented to us as a concept that will help you manage people better – that you should try and manage people so that they were in a [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Book Review: Flow, The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Posted in Book Reviews, Life, Work and life on 28 December, 2007 | 7 Comments »
The Rules
Posted in Australian Politics, Civil Liberties on 26 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There was a story last week about how the new government has issued a directive that major statutory agencies (for example the CSIRO, ANSTO and Questacon) will not issue any “strategic media releases which relate to the Government’s key messages” unless they have been vetted by the government – specifically the office of Kim Carr, Minister [...]
Book Review: Strategy and the Fat Smoker
Posted in Book Reviews, Work and life on 18 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s book review is Strategy and the Fat Smoker, by David Maister. First, a disclosure. In a first for me, I got this book as an advance copy for review on my blog. And given that David Maister has been one of my favourite business writers for a while (since I read his book Managing [...]
The holiday season
Posted in Education, holiday on 9 December, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Mark Bahnisch in Larvatus Prodeo has a post celebrating the start of the festive season (for political junkies, who had to get the election out of the way before they even noticed that the decorations were up in October). In passing, he comments that:
it’s interesting to note, just quietly, that it’s almost always business groups [...]
Walking home
Posted in Life on 8 December, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There are two or three nights every year that it is impossible to get taxis anywhere in Sydney; the Friday Christmas party nights. Last night was one of them, so I walked home across the Harbour Bridge.
Once I got onto the Bridge itself, I took my shoes off; my feet needed a rest from my [...]
Best posts of 2007
Posted in Blogging on 6 December, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Club Troppo has called for nominations for the Best blog posts of 2007 (Australian). I don’t think I belong in that illustrious company, but I thought it would be a good exercise to work out my top five for the year. My blog posts are quite varied. The ones that I work on my writing tend [...]
Sydney – Public Spaces Public Life
Posted in Australian Politics, environment on 4 December, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The City of Sydney recently engaged “international urban design expert Jan Gehl” to perform a “public spaces public life” study on Sydney with the aim of reviewing how people use the city of Sydney, living, working, playing, and make some recommendations as to how to improve it. He reported to Council this week.
Much of the [...]
Actuaries as ostriches
Posted in environment, global warming on 1 December, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Institute of Actuaries of Australia does a quick (36 seconds is the promise) survey of its members once a month, reported in its imaginatively titled magazine Actuary Australia. Of the 345 respondents (self selected, but a good proportion of all the actuaries in Australia) 35% don’t believe that global warming is happening at all.
I [...]
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