Sounding like an Arnie-style cyborg heavy, the gene technology regulator is potentially more scary, more real, and far more our problem than any wired-up Hollywood freak.
The trouble with equality is we only want it with our superiors. Unfortunately, there seem to be more ‘dohs’ than bright sparks in our society, making the pursuit of equality a tricky business.
The 16th April protests in Washington DC have irrevocably changed the world’s most powerful economic manipulators, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank – but how is uncertain.
BILL Gates, our favourite love-hate person, is not noted for his sense of humour and therefore, in the perverse ways of the world, must increasingly be the subject of comic attention.
Revisiting seminal management reports is like revisiting the rellies – stay too long, look too closely and you will probably see things you don’t want to find.
EXCEPT for Puff the Magic Dragon, many Westerners think the only good dragon is a dead one. Adam and Eve’s honeymoon came to an abrupt halt by a serpent.
If you are not living at the edge, you are taking up too much room. Welcome to the twenty-first century. The edge is increasingly where you will find what really matters.
ASK the PITS – person in the street – seen racing ratlike from appointment to carpark about the use of time and they will say, with profound if hurried conviction: Time is money, mate. The meter is running faster.
Many believe youth is wasted on the young. Others cannot remember their youth – were you part of the sixties? – but still maintain that they were more respectful, responsible, diligent and better cricket players than the youth of today.
AS THE American historian Dr Ashleigh Brilliant commented: “All the evidence concerning the universe has not yet been collected, so there is still hope”.
Ever noticed that when we do not know how to solve a major problem, we do the wrong thing but with twice the zeal, twice the effort and, usually, twice the resources?
If you are one of the growing number of people who are practicing the Luge Strategy for daily survival – lie flat and try not to die – then you had better not be in it just for the money or you might have rather a short run.
I bet you, like me, are not one of the 80% of Australians who love to gamble. We might buy the odd slikpik, or support the footie team raffle, but that is not really gambling, is it?
Big thinkers love to name big things. Eras, for example. The 19th century, with the mighty impact of the industrial revolution is logically enough labelled the industrial era.
Financial systems are not so much an accident waiting to happen,” says Martin Wolf, the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, “as one that is constantly happening.”
Are you a bullying boss? Do you drive your employees to reach unrealistic deadlines, and demand greater productivity with less resourcing in these competitively tough times?
ONE of WA’s largest exporters has become the first foreign company to win a major Japanese supplier award.Dampier Salt, ranked 17th in the Business News’ List of Largest Exporters in WA won the Osaki Glass Top Supplier Award.
WA, you may not be aware, actually means: Way Ahead. Both way ahead of the rest of the mob in doing lots of things better, and way ahead by pointing in the right direction for a healthy sustainable future.
We all know speed kills, in whatever form you use it, and the speed of the Internet has its own risks. The super speed of the net is credited with bringing down the Multilateral Agreement on Investment – that recent attempt by transnational business and
