An article by Adam Stadtmiller on cultivating change without the cost of relationships. Superficial change can be made quickly, cultural change takes much longer. From the article: One of the most explosive errors that a leader can make is to mistake changing things for changing culture. Changing things is easy and offers quick emotional payoff …

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This week’s article for Mount Gambier’s local paper. If you mention Sony’s recent decision to stop producing blank tapes for Betamax video recorders to people of a certain age (usually male) you may get a response that includes the aggrieved observation that Beta was the better video recording system than VHS. You could pity those …

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For publication in our local paper this week. A reflection on White Ribbon Day. Another White Ribbon Day has come and gone. The day challenges us to acknowledge that, for a significant portion of Mount Gambier’s population, home is not a place of security and nurture, but a place of fear and abuse.While the day …

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