Bored at work? Go somewhere else.
by MAX: Bored at work? Go somewhere else.
Whilst you were slaving away last week behind the desk, I spent the time surfing, on the beach with the family, with no newspapers and no TV. I was intending to write an article sitting around one night on the beach with a cold beer. Somehow I ran [...]
MAX: Urgency or Panic
MAX is a Melbourne based exec who likes to surf & breed. He writes for uncluttered white spaces from time to time. Here is part 3.
I recently read with interest the Bull commenting about that great corporate phrase – “my word is my bond”. Love it.
This got me thinking of another old chestnut straight out [...]
MAX: Today was a good day.
A US academic recently carried out a study on university-age males. The hypothesis was simple. We can convince post pubescent males of anything. The experiment went:
Step 1: Show aforementioned males the same dozen centerfolds
Step 2: Get them to select their favourite via polling software
Step 3: Fudge the [...]
FROM MAX: War games.
In a recent workshop, we were struggling to convince a number of stakeholders to make some relatively tough yet really obvious decisions. It seemed simple enough, we had clearly articulated the current position, the strategy and the financial outcomes however we could not align the room to make a decision. A delay was going to [...]
