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Beware of Gen Y

I recently purchased a book about managing Generation Y, why would I do that? Well, there were a couple of reasons, I thought that the book might actually be delivering some good points on management and could be useful to people and more honestly, I wanted to see how much of it was stereotypical…

Moment of Clarity

The news that a colleague’s brother died this morning gave me a reality check. It seems to always happen with the death of a loved one or friend that we have moment’s of clarity and say to ourselves, ‘right — life is too short, I’ll make the most of it’. But how long does that last for? It’s…

Tick All of The Boxes

The GFC became an excuse for many things, in Australia companies used it as an excuse to shift out difficult employees with ‘redundancies’ or not give pay rises. It was also used by employers as an excuse to only hire people who ticked all the boxes. I’ve spoken about this in a previous…

Authentic

Authenticity is something I take pretty seriously, I’m not a person who has one personality at home and another one in the office (although I have been told I should). A couple of years ago I attended a course which is pretty commonly known as a cult but one of the big things I took out of this course was to…