December 2022

My younger son loves to play cricket. Recently the (main) summer season ended but my son enrolled for a winter season tournament – he just can’t get enough of it! I was helping the team to scout for a cricket ground which is a challenge in winter. Councils convert them to soccer and footy fields […]

As a business grows, things get complicated and complex. Many businesses find the bottom-line margin going down, as the top-line goes up, due to a lack of systems, structures and processes. James Clear (NY best-selling author) states elegantly, in his book Atomic Habits, that ‘You do not rise to the level of your goals. You

Australian manufacturing is at its lowest point ever at just 5.6% of GDP. It used to be over 30% in its heyday in the 1960s. The government’s plan to resuscitate the ailing manufacturing sector over the recent years has been fundamentally built upon a heavy technology focus. Based on a recent Ai Group’s Performance of

Ben Hunt-Davis – former Olympic Champion Rower On Sunday Sep 24th 2000, exactly 20 years ago today, the British rowing team lined-up their boat in the men’s-eight finals race at the Sydney Olympics Games. Competing with them were Australia, Croatia, Italy, United States (defending champions) and Romania. The British team dominated the 2km race from

We all want to get more things done in less time, both at work and at home. We look for productivity hacks, apps to jump queues, freelancers to delegate tasks to, with the single view of getting more done. But I reckon we can actually do more than that – a big claim, I know!

Like it or not, business is a game—well, that’s how I see it. The leadership team of a business defines and sets the boundaries, the rules, the players and the length of play. Simon Sinek writes about this concept in his latest book, The Infinite Games. He specifically states that, ‘There are no winners or