There are times in your life when you just know you need a change...Read More

No, there is no normal. Move forward, not backwards!Read More

Sometimes the world changes on you. It's not your fault. It's nobody's fault...Read More

There's research going back decades that shows that women make better managers than men...Read More

Overnight successes tend not to stick. Slow, organic growth is the one that multiplies, multiples upon multiples, hockey stick style...Read More

There it was on the front page of the Business section, an article (with a photo) right slap in the centre, about a new online real estate website.Read More

One of the best educators, mentors and human beings I have ever met passed away last week. He had a huge impact on my life...Read More

It was the 9th of the 9th ’99 when I walked into the headmaster’s study and handed in my letter of resignation… Twenty years ago today. It was a big step. I felt I had to give this crazy new tech startup a go, and it was before we had kids, so felt it was...Read More

I was speaking at a business breakfast the other day, and the subject of the morning was ‘creating an enterprise culture in WA‘. With our long history in successful resources and other entrepreneurial ventures, one might think that we had a great enterprise culture already. And we do. If you want to develop a mine,...Read More

In the fourth post of this series, I recall 20 years ago when we decided on a name for our startup, and the issues it then caused for the next decade… Before the idea, there was context, an unforgettable comedic event before we talked to people we trusted about our idea. Now, a few weeks...Read More