The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a stellar book. I first read it in 2011 and was enthralled by what it had to offer. Wiser and more experienced in 2012 I read it again and, once more, could get so much from it. It’s ideas and illustrations have shaped and enhanced my management, […]
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Archive | August, 2012
Love Poem #2
August 17, 2012 
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I wrote this poem on Tuesday night after getting off the phone to a friend from my home town of Adelaide. I haven’t written much poetry of late so this was welcome. I wasn’t going to put it up quite so soon, but what with the giddy feeling of being ‘freshly pressed’, I figure I […]
Read more On Love and Loss
August 14, 2012 65 Comments
(For background listening: Jeff Beck, ‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers’) In bed one night, I tried to remember an old girlfriend’s mobile number and could not. There had been a time when her entry in my address book had extra ‘a’s to make it easier to find in my phone, when I would dial her […]
Read more Book 22: “Great Expectations”, Charles Dickens
August 8, 2012 1 Comment
Great Expectations is a book so loved, so recognised, so revered, that I, like many others no doubt, knew much of it well before I read it. Of course, it is central to Mister Pip, recently discussed on this here blog. I’ve also learnt a little about Dickens here and there – I had an influential […]
Read more On Moyer’s Four Roles of Social Activism
August 4, 2012 0 Comments
Bill Moyer’s MAP (Movement Action Plan) model for organising social movements gives social activists a conceptual framework for analysing past and contemporary social movements. One aspect of this model is “The Four Roles of Social Activism”. Moyer’s model is useful primarily because it highlights the interdependence of the four roles: he argues that “social movements […]
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