Senior managers overseeing major IT projects have, to use the words of Australian communications company Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo, three months to "catch the vision or catch the bus", when it comes to understanding the significance of major IT projects, according to PwC national transformation leader Stephen Woolley. "A visionary and charismatic CEO might think they would win the hearts and minds of their direct reports ... Read full entry

Riding Shotgun by Christine MacLean at Jugglezine. The new year; this is the season for making changes... Angela King, a manager in her mid-thirties, knew that her husband Kevin was restless in his white-collar job. While it was good in many regards, it hadn't been giving him any personal satisfaction. When Kevin started riding along in the squad car with his police officer brother and asking him questions about ... Read full entry

Who moved my cheese? Somehow I ended up with a copy of this book, and rediscovered it, yes, when digging around in a cupboard the other day. Let's cut straight to the chase... Hem and Haw awoke each day a little later, dressed a little slower, and walked to Cheese Station C. After all, they knew where the cheese was now and how to get there. They had no idea where the ... Read full entry

There's nothing like crunching after dinner cheese and crackers over intelligent conversation. And where oh where do they keep finding these "fresh" topics of discussion?I was quite amused to recently find myself in the middle of a very animated discourse about money. Not that you're really surprised on that count? But I'll stop beating about the bush, we were debating at ... Read full entry