“Everything looks like a failure in the middle,” warns Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Any new enterprise encounters roadblocks. As the obstacles multiply, the situation looks hopeless. That’s precisely when you need to hold onto your principles, your long-term view, to help get you past that panic. Read more at Long Views.
Gloves off!
Two weeks to election day, and the polls are still a disaster for John Howard. Does this mean previously-unacceptable tactics now become legitimate? Howard has never been one to give up easily. In the fight to the finish, just how grubby could it get?
Laurie Anderson, improved version
hugh manatee has posted a different version of Laurie Anderson’s Only an Expert which is much better than the one I wrote about yesterday. I partially withdraw my snarky comment.
New Matilda is free!
New Matilda is now free! “From today all content will be available free of charge,” says editor José Borghino. “NewMatilda.com readers will no longer need to subscribe.” It’s free, apparently. Or, in other words, it costs nothing.
Yes, it’s all about John Howard
Just in case you ever doubted that John Howard is the problem with the Coalition’s election hopes, check this analysis by Possums Pollytics.
793k/second
I must admit, since upgrading our Internet link to ADSL2+ it is rather nice seeing notices like “download 793k bytes per second”.