Tribal knowledge We bring our whole lives to the office. If work and home coalesce, if they sustain each other, then we’re engaged, productive, happy. If they don’t… well, we become detached, depressed, even ill.This explains why, as a manager,...

Game on! Every so often, a craze comes along that taps into a collective zeitgeist. Older adults remember yo-yos or hula-hoops or marbles or collecting a certain set of cards. If you’re younger you’ll have overdosed on virtual apps, like Angry...

Platform power Every day, people ask me what Springday does.They’re interested when I tell them we’re in the wellbeing business because, hey, who isn’t interested in wellbeing?But when I say ‘Springday is a wellbeing platform’, I can see their...

Life after start-up On May 9 I’ll be in Queensland, presenting at Toowoomba’s annual Innovation, Leadership and Strategy Summit. The blurb in the conference program says I’ll be taking participants through ‘my strategy in getting my vision to...

Planning time Easter’s just been and gone! This year’s just shooting by, isn’t it? We’re nearly at Mother’s Day and before you know it June will be gone and it’ll be a whole new financial year.Right now, it’s planning season and managers all...

And the future is here One of the most interesting things about working at the cutting edge of technology is seeing how we - human beings that is - deal with artificial intelligence (AI) and the effect it has on our lives.Human beings have...

Falling and falling Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2016 brings you and those you love all you wish for.And while we’re on the subject: what exactly did you wish for this year? In fact, how are those new year’s resolutions going? And what about...

All in the mind (part 2) In my last blog, I talked about mindfulness and meditation. To recap: both practices aim to focus and clear our minds and help us become calm, efficient and orderly. We can practice informally, through day-to-day...

All in the mind (part 1) This is the first of two blogs about mindfulness and meditation. In this blog I’ll try to explain them, the difference between them and why they’re good for us. Next time, I’ll talk about how to go about practising...

Back to the future I’ve had an absolutely amazing couple of weeks (in a good way) with milestones in both my personal and professional life. I’ll start with what’s happening professionally.Recently, I found myself attending two lectures on the...