I saw something today that triggered me to again ponder on past jobs I’ve had and how things have changed. When I worked in the advertising game, I wrote and art directed a number of television commercials among other things for Canon in the mid to late 1980′s. This was in the days when a fax machine was pretty cool technology. It seems funny when you watch these TV ads now. Wow – we could send to ’131 locations with the...

This is the ‘Information Age’. It is a time of incalculable and unpredictable change. It is a time when no person or organisation can plan very far in advance, because technology will more than likely develop in a way that will cause a dramatic effect on anything we can think of today. As I write this, the medium and long-term future of every workplace remains in a state of unpredictability. Six months from today, a job that seems...

Some people sit down and plan their New Year Resolutions and then just power into it. (They usually burn out a few weeks later, but that’s another story!) But what if you are one of those people who was getting about your life, minding your own business when Christmas and New Year suddenly came upon you and before you knew it, you are living in 2010? Life just didn’t give you time to sit down and think about the year ahead....

Some great tips to help you achieve your new years resolutions. We had 78mm of rain on Christmas and Boxing Day and we’ve had some lovely sunny days since then. Already the grass needs mowing and the previously wilted plants are vibrant with new life. How appropriate for the start of a new decade. It is already the 7th of January, we’re a week into the new decade, and I wonder how many people around the world have already broken...

There are many milestones in one’s life. I recently wrote about my best friend Brian becoming a grandfather but today it was our turn as we reached a milestone of our own. Janine and I were both the eldest children in our families, so we were each first to leave home. Neither of us had ever lived in a house where someone else had left home. But as a parent, when your firstborn finishes school and leaves home at the tender age of 18 years,...