So it’s finally happened…the Australian election has been called. Now we’ll get to see some leadership in action…maybe! 
It’ll be interesting to see how much real leadership comes out from either side…or how often leadership is put aside in the name of political expediency. I’ll be keeping an eye out!
I was going to write about the leadership issues facing Kevin Rudd over the proposed Resources Super Profit Tax….but a bit late now me thinks! A very sad event during the week because I personally have a lot of time for what he was trying to achieve. And I also can appreciate the personal devastation he and his family must be feeling…I think we forget that politicians, for all they might annoy us at times, are human beings as well.
The upside is that I think Julia Gillard is an extremely talented person who will do a great job. Not only has she been handed a good base of reforms on which to build but she has skills in the very areas that Kevin Rudd lacked…and which, it seems, led to his downfall. This will allow her, I believe, to successfully implement some of the reforms that Kevin Rudd was not able to.
So lets talk about the skills that Kevin Rudd lacked. (more…)
Don’t you hate being a loser! Have you ever argued with someone until you were blue in the face even though you knew that they were right and you were wrong?? Which would you choose…a 90% chance of never losing or a 20% chance of always winning?
One of the ideas that has really stuck with me from the teaching I have done is the idea of loss. When I first started teaching it hit me as one of those real ‘ah ha’ moments. It might say something about me but it had never really occurred to me that conflict revolves around loss. I mean, there are some obvious ones (more…)
