“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo da Vinci I’m a strategist. Putting effort into thinking and planning is key to good strategy. But...
This photo by Anil Prabhaker has been doing the rounds of Instagram and Twitter since early 2020. CNN described the moment as the orangutan ‘stretching out its hand to help a man out of snake-infested waters’. The photographer (a geologist), wrote,...
Last week Kylie Miller and I were teaching our new Get It Write program with a team. We start by talking about the importance of being human in our writing. One participant challenged us on this notion. He said simple, clear, plain English is fine when communicating...
Do you receive loads of long-form organisational comms? By that, I mean screeds of wordy jargon, impenetrable narratives, and a lot of background information that you don’t need? It’s all too common and oh-so-fixable. Here are three simple...
What do we expect from our media? There’s a fierce contemporary dialogue about the news media, and I don’t think journalists are coming out on top. Nine Newspapers economics editor Ross Gittins talked about journalism’s trust problem in a...
