Leigh Farnell

Our good friends Jim and Alice offered me a wee whiskey last night when I went over to pick up James from band practice. Alice is Scottish, so a small whiskey on a cold Saturday night is just something you do. I’ve had about 3 whiskeys in my whole life. So it hits hard when [...]

What is going on? We’ve all woken up on a Monday morning to: 1. A heat wave in NSW.. 2. Floods in my old home town of Bendigo and most of Victoria 3. Bushfires in the hills around Perth. 40 homes gone…and.. 4. December retail sales figures were better than expected.. PLUS

A presentation by a friend of ours, Steve McGurk… using a new technology that moves beyond ‘Death by Powerpoint’ called Prezi. Wow.. it allows you to scan in and out and move around a presentation rather than have to move slide by slide and linearly… Steve has put several powerful Youtube presentations and a powerful [...]

I’ve just finished putting a new page on this web site.. It’s a page that outlines a service we have done for almost 25 years but had not articulated clearly enough on this site.. As with so many things, it’s so obvious… IN HINDSIGHT.. Why hadn’t we done it already? How could I be so [...]

Does your businesses culture need changing? Are you trying to implement change or take the business to the next level but it all just seems too hard? Trying to improve organizational performance without addressing the culture is like trying to swim through molasses. It’s like swimming upstream against the current. Its almost impossible – and [...]

Just back from water polo training and watching James play a 2 and a half hour tennis match that he just lost in a something like a double tie breaker(I didn’t know such a thing existed).. Anyway.. what a week.. Here are just some of the lessons.. FORMALISE INNOVATION IF YOU’RE SERIOUS My Innovation Session [...]