What should be the subject of the mandatory conversation you strike up with odious or uninspiring colleagues? Here are a few aces to put up your sleeve…
Read MoreIf you’re reading this and have worked in an office with mostly upper-middle class colleagues but never encountered the sort of lavatory foulness you’d associate with a cholera-infected Mumbai slum you’re in a tiny and very lucky minority.
Read MoreThe lord of the white lies I once told a lie. It was many, many…
Read MoreFriends have informed me that the internet dating scene is moribund. Realising that traditional partner-finding avenues are now back in vogue, I’ve decided to dedicate this week’s column to office prowling tips.
Read MoreThe worst mistake you can make as a citizen of the 21st century is believe that the age in which it was possible to quit one’s job and take to the road selling a miracle tincture made of tree sap, rancid avocado juice and buffalo urine is long past.
Read MoreThe official Haught guide to effective, strategic, synergistic networking, going forward.
Read MoreToday, the corporation fills the societal role once taken by knights and other masked crusaders. Primarily, it exists to undertake acts of great altruism, selflessness and civic good, so it’s guided not by an “objective”, but a “mission”.
If you’re granted the great privilege of crafting this superheroic manifesto, don’t waver: your mandate to be bold and colourful is contained in the document’s very name: mission statement. If they didn’t want it to be breathtakingly inspiring, they would have called it an “aim summary” or a “goal list”.
Read MoreEvery single word I write on these pages and in the pages of The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald is true. If…
Read More“Moving forward” (aka “going forward”) seems as popular today as when it first burst on to the corporate scene like an alien out of an unimportant character’s chest.
Read MoreWhat do you reckon Alan Jones wanted to be when he was growing up? What about Kyle Sandilands? Or Pat…
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