The months of July and August were a blur with my UNLOCK roadshow book launch events and an overseas work trip. As I looked back ...

I’m excited to announce that my latest book, UNLOCK: Engage the Seemingly Disengaged, became an Amazon #1 best-seller. Thank you for your support. It is ...

I started writing this on the 25th of August at 35,000 feet somewhere above the Pacific Ocean. The day is a significant one – my ...

To state the obvious, a surefire way to improve both productivity and employee engagement is the recipe we’re all looking for. At a conceptual level, ...

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is often attributed to the statement ‘change is the only constant’.  I think there’s one more: the role of the CEO. ...

Employee engagement is the holy grail that almost all employers are searching for in order to have a more productive workforce, deliver meaningful outcomes, create ...

I just got back from an overseas work trip yesterday. Those who are close to me know that I have an interest in aviation from ...

On 20th July 1997, Captain Michael Abrashoff took command of USS Benfold – one of the latest and most advanced battle ships of the US ...

I’ve had the privilege of helping companies to drive productivity and unlock excellence for over 25 years now. While improving productivity and profitability has been ...

My younger son and I recently had a bit of father-son bonding time discussing automotive manufacturing issues, watching motor-racing pit-stop changes and experiencing the adrenalin ...

I was recently overseas for a work commitment in a country popular for Salsa music and dancing. One evening, as I entered the hotel I ...

I was at my local shopping centre car park recently and noticed that the centre management had erected two traffic bollards to prevent cars from ...

My older son started university this week.  I tagged along with him on his first day to walk a trip down memory lane.  It was ...

Recently, as I was leaving an event late in the evening with my two sons, I remembered that my wife asked me to pick up ...

During my school years back in Sri Lanka, I keenly took part in scouting and basketball as extracurricular activities.  At 16 years of age, four ...

Happy New Year!  I wish you all the very best for the year ahead. In this first newsletter for 2024, I don’t want to talk ...

With two teenage sons who are learning to drive, I get to sit in the passenger seat quite a lot these days. This provides a ...

During my working-holiday in Sri Lanka earlier this year, I caught up with one of my high-school friends who is now a captain with Qatar ...

This is not a brag post. I’ve just landed in Shanghai after being to Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka over the last 11 days. While ...

Recently, I needed some documents printed over the weekend and went to my local office stationery & equipment store – most Aussies would recognise these ...

The first weekend of Oct was a long weekend for us. So, we took the opportunity for a family get away, making full use of ...

There’s a new Motorway (M8) in Sydney which makes my trips to the airport even faster. In a recent trip, I had an early morning ...

During a recent flight, I was asked a question by a flight attendant that certainly got my attention. On a 6:30am domestic flight after the ...

We just returned from a short family holiday at the Gold Coast (to our international readers, it is a popular beach-side holiday destination). One morning, ...

I try to streamline all processes associated with domestic business air travel. It helps to reserve my energy for more important things during the day. ...

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been exploring a simplified framework on how to improve productivity in our personal lives. We’ve adopted tools, techniques ...

We are familiar with the four stages of developing a new competency: unconsciously unaware; consciously unaware; consciously aware; and unconsciously aware. I’m living through this ...

I seem to have hit a patch of bad luck with my recent interstate travels: the flights that I’m on are frequently getting cancelled or ...

One morning recently, I was in a queue for a coffee. I was observing the process and noticed that they had systemised it quite well. ...

If there is ever a need to improve our shopfloor team engagement, it’s now!  Why? In my conversations with Supply Chain leaders every week, I’ve ...

Have you heard the joke regarding our affinity towards numbers? “There are three types of people in the world. Those who can count and those ...

We are generally good at coaching, mentoring, and advising others. We tend to be kind, generous and forgiving. However, when it comes to critiquing ourselves, ...

How many business improvement initiatives have you started, only to find yourself in one of the following scenarios a few team meetings later: •   ...

A few years ago, as I was speaking with the production scheduler of a manufacturing client, something caught my attention – printed production paperwork on ...

I was travelling last week and had a restaurant/pub meal with colleagues one evening. As I was picking up my meal, a set of pre-packed ...

My younger son loves to play cricket. Recently the (main) summer season ended but my son enrolled for a winter season tournament – he just ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘World-class is a journey’ – we’ve heard it, I believe in it, and I’ve seen companies putting this into practice.  While it is a useful ...

Last weekend, my wife and I made a quick trip to Brisbane – no, it wasn’t a romantic getaway, just some property matter to attend ...

Last week, I shared a universal framework on how to identify improvement opportunities – areas, activities and tasks where we are wasting resources in business ...

My article on the Weekend Australian

Supply Chain Excellence, Operational Excellence (OpEx), World-Class Manufacturing – a few terminologies used to describe frameworks that help organisations continually shift performance year-on-year.  Each year, ...

I’ve appeared on stages, podcasts, newspapers, radio and industry magazines over the years, but last week I had the opportunity to be interviewed for TV ...

I learnt something important during my first annual performance review as a Manufacturing Manager with a multi-national company, more than a decade ago. Measuring the ...

In my previous newsletter I shared the overarching ‘universal’ framework to improve productivity and performance, at work or home; 1) Identify, 2) Prioritise and 3) ...

There’s never a dull moment in manufacturing, right?  I understand - I’ve been in roles where I had to sleep with the phone next to ...

Over the past few weeks virtual team meetings have become the new norm for many business teams. So much so, that some are experiencing zoom ...

My younger son loves to play cricket. Recently the (main) summer season ended but my son enrolled for a winter season tournament – he just ...

I made my first domestic flight to Melbourne this week in 15 months with almost the same level of excitement when I got onto a ...

I was traveling last week and had a restaurant/pub meal with colleagues one evening. As I was picking up my meal, a set of pre-packed ...