How Attitude can make a rotten Apple

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016Leave a comment

“It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy.”

-Steve Jobs

I had the pleasure of an advanced screening of Steve Jobs (2015) recently, and it got me thinking.

Do the attitudes and decisions of CEOs and people associated with a brand matter if a brand has commercial success?
Has affluenza afflicted us with a selective moral blindness?

Yes – a kind of tunnel vision.

Look down at your iPhone, iPod, iPad or Apple product:

Name the (late) CEO – what was the name of the daughter that he denied paternity of (despite a positive test) ?

Without touching the Apple product, where is it designed? Where are the parts assembled?

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And Everything In Between: Daenerys Targaryen – fire breather and well-groomed Tryant

May 11, 2015June 11, 2015Leave a comment

One for the Game of Thrones fans!

This is a fictional political profile of *deep breath*: Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons.

Game of Thrones (GoT) constantly ‘throws the baby out with the bath-water’ with its characters. The TV series is particularly brutal; character development can be intensive and lives can be (proportionally) short.

Is there a link between how long someone is alive and how much ‘impact’ they have?

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KRudd hits the ‘Game Over’ button, why was he important?

November 14, 2013February 3, 2015Leave a comment

First entry on the road! Currently on the Eastern Seaboard!

Kevin Rudd resigned from Parliament last night.

“Why should I care, PIK? What does it mean? What will it change?!”

Firstly, there will be a By-election in the seat of Griffith, Queensland. A by-election is an out of term (Parliament is elected every 4 years) election for a single, or multiple electorates. Because we live in a Democracy and the institute of Parliament is a pretty important one, KRudd’s seat can’t be left vacant for 4 years. Just because one seat goes to an election doesn’t mean the whole state or country has to — unless you were the Gillard Government of 2010-2013(!)

By-elections are often non-events, they will happen very quietly and we’ll hear in a few weeks who replaces Kevin. The ALP are confident of holding the seat, which is likely. By-elections occur when an MP dies or retires; if electoral boundaries change, then that change usually affects the next election (informed well in advance), but never mid term.

Check out how the electoral boundaries of Griffith have changed!

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Fashion, Politics and Personality: The rise of Personalit-ocracy

July 14, 2013January 18, 2016Leave a comment

Two things have had me thinking lately –

Julia Gillard’s quote in her pre-spill interview “we all know politics isn’t about personality”.
The role that personality plays over policy in contemporary politics.

I recently started an internship at an image consultancy firm, and it re-ignited my train of thought. As something of a politically and fashionably aware person – depending on the day, I pride myself on one over the other, these days perhaps more the latter [!]

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