CALL FOR AN EMERGENCY NATIONAL SUMMIT

Australia was dubbed the 'Lucky Country' in jest by Donald Horne. And Horne decried perceived Liberal intransigence in his 'Death of the Lucky Country'. How very dangerous it will be to rely on our current luck and arrangements to facilitate our expansion into our region and for our citizens. The Constitutional Crisis engulfing our country betrays, like Raskolnikov's motives in Crime and Punishment, cynicism's logical extension. Both sides are to blame..

RANK OPPORTUNISM

The 43rd Parliament stinks of rank politicisation. Julie Bishop, for example, compared Australia's debt "descent" to Iceland. Apparently, Bishop served as partner to a major Australian law firm. On these economic statements, nevertheless, she and the Opposition should go back to High School. Is this the best we can intellectually muster in our representative House?

The ALP pantomime we need not rehearse. The play is afoot.

BUSINESS CONFIDENCE

Clive Palmer has run for Parliament. That is his right. However, business includes all who work as well as those who own. No doubt, the dysfunction in government can infect our productive economy where things are done and made. What is the leadership standard in our corporations today? If we disrespect talent at the apex of the pyramid, we debase our national economic currency and the character of our people.

Those unfit to hold office, whether in public or in private, should be moved to resign. This must become a national imperative. Thus, the Commonwealth will prosper from the application of more capable hands, minds and the light of finer hearts..

A NATIONAL SUMMIT

To staunch the bloodflow and confront the disease, I believe the Business Council of Australia and a bipartisan commission should determine to hold an immediate summit into the subject of our nation's future. Before the Lucky Country suffers intolerable neglect and destitution.

Let's facilitate a new 'lucky streak'

SCALING WALLS ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tfyLbin9gs

Mid Market spoiling for a fight?    "I smell the sense of retribution in the air"

 

WHY EVEN YOUR MOTHER COULD BE WRONG

If you want to know about pain and heartbreak, I could give you a dissertation. We love happy endings in the movies. So why do we tolerate misery and abjection in reality?

I love you Clare. I would deny even my own mother, if you gave me reason to believe.

The strongest organ in our body is the Heart, not the head..

THIS IS MY STAND

My mother has been unwell: This can exacerbate inter-personal problems. Since, perhaps, we are similar, we have failed to see eye-to-eye. I think, in hindsight, we also have differing perspectives on risk. Moreover, I see a wider problem with our infantilisation of adolescents.

I refuse to hold back, and refuse to give in. I know what I like to do, whom I want to work with, even, in the midst of difficulties, whom I wish to marry. And I will not back down.

I have taken huge risks at work and have risked everything to realise what I 'ultimately' desire, and need. My mother just stated, 'You cannot live as an idealist'. I hope to hell she is wrong and that her party is utterly defeated..

For me, to accept such a principle is to accept living death..  

FREE RANGE: ROVING THOUGHTS AND WACKY PLOTS

WHAT Y'ALL THINK?


PUBLIC SPHERE


~ Should the Governor-General have a greater role in the Commonwealth? If neither party can promote a legitimate candidate for leadership, should the G-G be able to step in to remove both candidates in line with electoral preferences (eg, Turnbull, Rudd) and call an early election?

~ KPIs for the Executive: should the government fail to meet basic infrastructure and productivity targets as well as net innovation and equity objectives, the government can be taken to an election for poor performance..

~ Longer electoral cycles in accord with the Electoral Act to five years subject to above..

~ Legislative limits on the power to call repeated inquiries or Commissions into the same subject matter (eg, indigenous welfare)


PRIVATE SPHERE

~ High potential conduits in large organisations: taking hipos outside the standing command-and-control, so that line managers and even business unit heads are directly answerable and responsible to the C-Suite team and even the CEO for hipo growth and development. Matrix-wise, the line manager does not have immediate organisational power over identified candidates. If hipos are seen to be treated differently, that is because they ARE..

~ Much as there is an equity investment premium, placing an underlined premium on growing high-potential strategists. Partnering with senior managers and in programmes, candidates are heavily invested in acquiring and developing strategic thought and a strategic outlook and marketing orientation for use of company resources. Big picture thinking is thereby prioritised.