‘Agile’ is a managerial buzzword that you’ve no doubt heard bandied around in the modern workplace (right up there with my personal favourite: ‘synergy’). You might be aware that ‘agile’ is a formal project management methodology associated with software development, but the fundamental thinking behind that methodology can be applied more broadly to organisations as a whole….
Month: April 2016
Humans need not apply
The more I read, the more I am concerned about the future of the economy here in South Australia and worried about the future employment prospects for my children in this state. As I write this, the South Australian unemployment rate is the worst in the nation at 7.7% – the next worst is Tasmania with…
The day I kissed the dirt
‘Make sure you eat breakfast in the morning’, the drillie said. If only I had heeded those instructions, maybe I wouldn’t have ended up ‘face planting’ into the parade ground – or ‘baconing’ as it was known in cadet lingo – during the 1992 Graduation Parade at the Australian Defence Force Academy. As first year…
Are you a tampon, Wehner?
I was amused to read an article on Business Insider recently entitled: ‘Military personnel share amazing one-liners from drill instructors‘. My favourite one-liners from the article: ‘Every time you open your mouth, stupid just falls out’ ‘Do it again and I’ll paper cut your pee hole’ ‘You’re a communist plot to fuck up my Marine…
Mindfulness on a treadmill
I try to run regularly to maintain some vague semblance of fitness. Or at the very least to assuage some of the guilt that I feel for eating and drinking whatever I like, in spite of my waning metabolism. Having been introduced to mindfulness through my current MBA class, I wondered whether it was possible to…
Is this what the library of the future looks like?
When I was in Melbourne recently, I took the opportunity to catch up with Gil Poznanski and take a look around the ‘Library at the Dock’ – my SA public library colleagues will recall that Gil spoke recently at the PLSA quarterly meeting at the State Library. In my short time in ‘library land’, I’ve heard…