Think about a time you were part of a great team, loved what you were doing, in today’s lingo, fully engaged with an awesome employee experience. What was happening, with you, other team members, your leader, customers, management, organisation, culture, structure and systems? I can share some of the characteristics…

In August 2019 the Reinventing Work (RW) Adelaide meetup convened for the first time, thinking globally and acting locally based on and with the support of the RW founders from Bristol and a rapidly growing community across the world. (https://www.reinventing.work/) (Now in well over 30 cities across Asia, Australia, New…

Always amazed and grateful for opportunities which present themselves here in little old Adelaide and it was special joining an audience with Marty Linksy co-author of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World at a SA Leadership Academy event on Adaptive Leadership. …

July 25, 2014, Bill Clinton was in Adelaide to open Torrens University Australia. I had been volunteering from May of that year as part of their inaugural Global Project Management Advisory Panel, so amid tight security I was probably within one of the last groups of people to be invited…

It’s fair to say I am quite competitive, especially in terms of being ambitious, zealous, driven, keen, probably less so, aggressive, ruthless, combative, cut-throat! So little surprise my 10 year old lad has similar traits. We both love sports and games and spend a lot of time playing together, which…

Dave walked into the makeshift server room mid afternoon in May 1992. An electric kettle half filled with water in hand. Searching for a power outlet, his analytical mind snapped into action. That server has a UPS (unlimited power supply) attached for any power outage, so I can unplug that…

I originally titled this story ‘To cert or not to cert, that is the question’. Whilst writing it, the question emerging was ‘To re-cert or not to re-cert?’ In the end, this was really just about me letting go and moving on, such a cathartic process this writing caper. Once…

On my little writing journey now for a month and I am cooking up a few ‘drafts’ at the same time. As an idea or memory pops into my head, I make a ‘start’, a placeholder really, just a title and/or bullet points maybe a few notes (story backlog hah!)…

Well as unhelpful questions go, this ranks high. It didn't start out that way for me, as a newbie Scrum Master (newbie Master, now that’s another story!), I loved to share the Chicken and the Pig story. The point I was trying to make with the Scrum Team, is that…