Update on the Kids
Posted on January 2008
LEADERSHIP MATTERS January 2008
On my most recent visit to the Baan Tharn Namchai Orphanage in Khao Lak, I witnessed many things that bring perspective to one's life. When we opened the Orphanage in August of 2006, wRead more...
The Importance of Sustainability
Posted on March 2008
LEADERSHIP MATTERS March 2008
The other week I was back at Baan Tharn Namchai with a conference for Tandem Financial Advice. We took the delegates up to the Orphanage and handed over a new truck that we had jointly fRead more...
Message from the Delta
Posted on April 2008
The support that Hands has received over the last several months has been fantastic and without question it has truly blown me away. Almost on a weekly basis now something is occurring around Hands that literally has me sitting and shaking my headRead more...
It has to be meaningful
Posted on July 2008
I was in Phuket just the other week and speaking at a conference for Optus Australia. Thailand for me these days is a very different place to what it was a number of years ago. The JW Marriott Hotel where we stayed with the Optus crew is also a veRead more...
Have you seen the price of rice lately?
Posted on June 2008
Have you noticed the rise in the price of rice lately? Probably not, I certainly hadn't. Well, I am certainly aware now of the impact it has had on the kids at the orphanage. The price of rice has almost doubled in the last six months which, with Read more...
Behind the Numbers
Posted on May 2008
It's hard not to look at the news over the last week and not be confronted by the death of so many in first Burma and now China as a result of the earthquake. I think without doubt the most confronting thing to come out of Burma is the number of dRead more...
Is Change Possible?
Posted on October 2008
Not for the first time in writing a newsletter do I feel compelled to write about the value of change. I had an interaction with a conference delegate early this week and at the time I was confronted, then I was provoked, then I was thankful.
Read more...The Second Wave
Posted on November 2008
LEADERSHIP MATTERS
Andrew Forrest, the mining magnet from Western Australia, Alan Carpenter, the former Western Australian Premier and myself spoke to a small group of resource executives in Perth last week.
A journey it was!
Posted on August 2008
LEADERSHIP MATTERS August 2008
I just returned from our first public "Journey of Change" program in Phuket. It was all that I hoped it would be and so, so much more. The program started when Nicole Perry wRead more...