A Professional Family Tree
Andrew Garner from Ernst & Young (EY) is now supposed to be leading a team to look at the what the new Queensland Health payroll solution should be. With this EY gig this rounds out a full complement of consulting firms getting different slices of the pie when it comes to Queensland Health and Shared Services provision in Queensland Government. Of course, we won't talk about it being consulting advice that recommended the whole shared services initiative and corptech in the first place. That discussion would sidetrack this blog post markedly.
My post was to congratulate Andrew on this gig. Since his recent connection to EY and more recent move back to Brisbane from Canberra, Andrew has been everywhere.
Some of you would know that Andrew was part of my team at Queensland Rail (QR). He, like all of us, learnt a lot on that project, and created some great results for QR. It is great to see him continue on as he has.
Andrew's boss at IBM was Norman Scott. Norman was the partner overseeing the IBM services we used at QR. A piece of trivia is that I hired Norman into his first ever job in Australia. It was a 3 mth contract as an Oracle programmer in the early 90's. I never saw Norman until almost a decade later. Norman never tells anyone that story. Perhaps it takes away from the mystique.
Having supervised at least two partners before they became partners in the big firms, maybe I should be seeking some talent spotting fees. I suspect I'd have a fat chance of that!
PS. If you are not sure what I am referrign to at Queensland Health, see this.
My post was to congratulate Andrew on this gig. Since his recent connection to EY and more recent move back to Brisbane from Canberra, Andrew has been everywhere.
Some of you would know that Andrew was part of my team at Queensland Rail (QR). He, like all of us, learnt a lot on that project, and created some great results for QR. It is great to see him continue on as he has.
Andrew's boss at IBM was Norman Scott. Norman was the partner overseeing the IBM services we used at QR. A piece of trivia is that I hired Norman into his first ever job in Australia. It was a 3 mth contract as an Oracle programmer in the early 90's. I never saw Norman until almost a decade later. Norman never tells anyone that story. Perhaps it takes away from the mystique.
Having supervised at least two partners before they became partners in the big firms, maybe I should be seeking some talent spotting fees. I suspect I'd have a fat chance of that!
PS. If you are not sure what I am referrign to at Queensland Health, see this.
Education Opportunity
Those of you who know me, know I put a lot of investment into my own education. There is an event coming up that I can recommend because of one trainer/coach/educator/leader in particular I am a fan of.
That is a guy by the name of Joel Roberts. I saw Joel in Singapore earlier this year. When it comes to packaging your message and being heard in a "Sound Bite, Headline, Hyperlink world" then Joel is the man with the plan helping you create your phrase that pays...OK that will do...must be getting late.
Check it out here for gigs in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne.
That is a guy by the name of Joel Roberts. I saw Joel in Singapore earlier this year. When it comes to packaging your message and being heard in a "Sound Bite, Headline, Hyperlink world" then Joel is the man with the plan helping you create your phrase that pays...OK that will do...must be getting late.
Check it out here for gigs in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne.
Gotta love TEDtalks
I recently came across TEDtalks podcasts. I have listened to TED sporadically, not because I don't enjoy the talks but more that I don't have a lot of time to sit in front of my PC and watch video. Sitting in a plane is a great time to catch up on that type of thing and so when I stumbled across TED podcasts I was very happy.
A recent podcast from TED was by Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. The best ideas are simple and this is a beautifully simple way of understanding and communicating what your business is all about.
Another TEDtalks podcast of someone at the top of their game and still climbing would have to be Jamie Oliver's. His influence and power continues to increase, for the betterment of all of us.
A recent podcast from TED was by Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. The best ideas are simple and this is a beautifully simple way of understanding and communicating what your business is all about.
Another TEDtalks podcast of someone at the top of their game and still climbing would have to be Jamie Oliver's. His influence and power continues to increase, for the betterment of all of us.
