A big thanks to everyone for reading my posts, passing them on, and above-all, commenting.

I am giving away 20 copies of my book – Cubicle Commando: Intrapreneurs, Innovation and Corporate Realities – for 2010.

Send me a short email as to why you, or someone you know, deserve to have this book to kick …

I am collecting personal anecdotes for a book project.

Have you been involved in a failed business partnership or project collaboration? Please share your story with me!

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As anyone who has been driven to start a business knows, our grand dreams and visions are seldom achievable through our own endeavours alone. We seek out like-minded others in our efforts to create what we …

Nominations close 16 March 2009.

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Thanks to Julie Lacy (Brand Event Marketing Specialist at The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia) for the heads up.

Margaret Manson sent me a great email recently about her InnoFuture Conference.

“My goal is to inspire Australian businesses to adopt best next (in this order) thinking business practices to make this country innovative and competitive. My method is to bring to them the best international thinkers and practitioners in innovation (through the InnoFuture conference) and relevant, challenging and brain stretching topics …

My friend Carolyn Lee came up with a brilliant personal weight loss campaign. This is what she had to say about it:

A couple of years ago I went hard and lost 15kg. Unfortunately thanks to kilo creep, about 7 of those have snuck back on over the last year and a half.

I had a brainwave to motivate myself to lose the weight once …

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Thanks everyone for reading, commenting and subscribing to this blog.
Have a great end of year break and happy holidays.
Zern (Singapore)

Look what one of my dear friends have gone and done:

I absolutely insist you visit her on http://mistressmia.com/.

(I am taking two weeks off blogging in memory of my good friend Jeff Cahill who left us suddenly on Friday.)

Dear Jeff,

Thank you for all the cut-the-crap insights, the silly stories, the unmentionable pranks, the great (home-cooked, take-out and 5-star gourmet) meals, the late night drives and coffees, the unconditional support, the illuminating wisdom, the great conversations, the reality …

I am going to use my twitter feed – http://twitter.com/zern – to deliver a constant stream of visual, aural, emotive, olfactory snippets of nows.

As a source of idea germs, to spark divergent thinking.

In response to my article Problem solving model: Four phases on FlyingSolo, Heather Smith from Brisbane asked for my thoughts on brainstorming alone.

One of my suggestions was: “Look for unrelated …

My friend Allison O’Neill is looking for ‘The Inside Dirt on Our Bosses’ for her up and coming book.

She is collecting stories (from all over the world) of the fantastic and the terrible boss/management experiences people have had throughout their working lives. This won’t be a book of petty moans and groans, but rather a collection of real life examples we can all learn from.

Share your story on …