Buzzwords

My friend Geoff, (not his real name), a Terminal Supervisor in the coal and rail business, recently poured out his frustrations to me on the managerial idiocy of the Corporation he works for. Actually, he does this all the time and I have suggested to him that it might be him rather than them. He [...]

The Ad Contrarian and me.

I have no connection with the The Ad Contrarian other than read the blog and have been influenced by it. However, there have been two signal events in my professional life in the last few years that have influenced me in positive and negative ways. The first was the ADMA Forum of 2007 which blew [...]

Out of Retail

It’s been so long since I’ve posted on this blog; a year actually. I’ve been out of retail for most of that time and haven’t looked back. Retail in Australia is a wasteland of backward thinking, uninspired leadership and business models that are primitive and inadequate. Harvey Norman, the once-were-warriors of retail, are the most [...]