Great thanks Matt, you have shown me a photo of a sandwich. This is not a sandwich! Then it’s a Salad Roll? This is not a Salad Roll! Then what is it? Well, this is a Ham Salad Double-Cut Roll. And if you live in South Australia, this is considered normal. This is part of our Culture. … [Read more...] about If You Know, You Know (IYKYK)
Capturing Culture
Today in my inbox (I like to keep abreast of what is happening in the Leadership space) I received a newsletter with the title ‘Why Culture fails before it even begins’ Culture is by nature a wicked problem, and is always there, it doesn’t just start, it can’t be ‘fixed’ or ‘controlled at best, … [Read more...] about Capturing Culture
How do you Communicate?
On a recent trip to Darwin I was standing in line, waiting to board the plane when I spied a young person wearing this T-Shirt. What an incredibly profound statement! When I go into organisations I see plenty of paperwork. Without getting into a competition, I have seen an 80 page Safe Work … [Read more...] about How do you Communicate?
Read Everything!
I was talking to a friend of mine who is a teacher in a primary school about a FB post trend of putting up all the books people have read in the past year. Not the Teacher’s reading list. In her current role, literacy is part of her job and luckily part of her passion. But she lamented to me … [Read more...] about Read Everything!
That Wasn’t on my 2026 Scorecard
And we are off and running into 2026! And here we are, only 5 days in and that world of certainty has been torched already, plans have been changed and altered, and that Caribbean cruise you were dreaming about doesn’t seem so appealing now! … [Read more...] about That Wasn’t on my 2026 Scorecard
Poetics and Risk Part XIII – Poetic Disciplines
Poetic disciplines are those things that cannot be measured. Semiotics Human Movements Law Poetry Dance Art Music Theatre Social Psychology Biology Performance Humanities History Geography Theology Metaphysics Knowing Multimodalities … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part XIII – Poetic Disciplines
Poetics and Risk Part XII – Communicating Unconsciously
So after a lot of videos and getting to understand Poetics and the Unconscious, how do we apply this to risk? How do we communicate unconsciously? Communication via checklists has already been proven to not give people meaning and purpose in an organisation. In fact most people in an organisation … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part XII – Communicating Unconsciously
Poetics and Risk Part XI – Poetics and the Collective Unconscious
Jung and his Understanding of Myth and Symbols show a collective unconscious, a collective knowledge, even though they have not met each other and share forms of the mandala, totems. So, what is it that they share in common, that cannot be seen or measured? Sheldrake calls it Morphic Resonance … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part XI – Poetics and the Collective Unconscious
Poetics and Risk Part IX: Poetics and the Unconscious
Personality, Faith, Mystery, Paradox, Hope, Dreaming, Psychedelics, Transcendence, Envisioning, Existential Existence, Imagination, Spirit – Soul – Mind, Synthesis. All these are a part of the unconscious, and a part of everyday life, so why are they not considered in how we organise at … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part IX: Poetics and the Unconscious
Poetics and Risk Part VIII: Mimesis and Mimetics
Imitation, Representation, Aesthetics, Imagination, Simulacra, Kinesic codes. Ask an Australian what this does. These are integral parts of learning in an organisation, where power must be given up for learning to happen, be adjusted, communicated and accepted. There is no checklist … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part VIII: Mimesis and Mimetics