Travesties of the proverbial: Fukuyama and the id of history
Travesties of the proverbial is a very occasional series one post of which began with these words. Keen readers of this blog will know that...
Australian politics and the Emperor’s New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen’s famous story The Emperor’s New Clothes epitomises the phenomenon of the truth hiding in plain sight as a result of collective delusion...
An email
This evening I received a highly significant email. It's from National Archives with which I'm doing some minor business. I have no idea what it means, but I...
Organisational culture and the generative commons: The ethics of buzzwords
Here's a list of buzzwords. I want to make a quick point. Note that there are very few ugly neologisms there - or even expressions...
Jeff Collins MLA is right about crime, but so what?
Experienced Troppo readers will be aware that I fairly frequently post articles about topics relating to crime and punishment, especially crime statistics and patterns....
Leadership
I've known Victor Perton since he was a lively Liberal MP interested in approaches to regulation that were more promising than the standard reg review boilerplate of...
Two types of strategy Part Two: Apex Statements are eating our brains
We need leaders who get up and out, are close to global megatrends and consumer behaviour, and understand leading indicators for changes to how people...