The Can-Do Wisdom of Florence Nightingale – Part 1
The story of Florence Nightingale’s life is relevant today for men and women who aspire to lead society into a […]
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Vincent Lingiari – Savvy Leader of the Wave Hill Station Walk-off
Vincent ‘Tommy’ Lingiari’s leadership of the Gurindji people at the time of the Wave Hill Station walk-off in 1966 was […]
Rediscovering Wisdom for Solving World Problems
There is now a need for wisdom in solving world problems like no other time in our history. Can-Do Wisdom […]
Empathy and Police Work – How Ron Iddles changed policing for the better
Empathy and respect when dealing with criminals is not something the public would normally expect of a police officer. Hardly […]
Daniel Goleman on Emotional Intelligence for Transformational Leadership
Emotional Intelligence is a key element for successful transformational leadership—the leadership style to use when you aim to lead the […]
Anthony Foster – The tenacious advocate for victims of child sexual abuse
The first inkling that Anthony and Christine Foster’s daughter, Emma, might have been a victim of child sexual abuse came […]
Lou Gerstner – IBM’s Digital Transformation Change Master
If the 2016 Australian eCensus hadn’t been such a disastrous failure most people would not have known that IBM had […]
John Kotter – Leading Change Guru
When Professor John Kotter published his seminal work on leading change there was something unusual about this 197-page book written […]
John Boyd – Misunderstood Genius of Warfighting
The UN-dictated rules of engagement for the allied forces operating against North Korea were quite specific. No pilot was to […]
Copthorne Macdonald – A Journey from Emotional Immaturity to Wisdom
In many ways Copthorne “Cop” Macdonald was ahead of his time and not just in wisdom. As a social experimenter, […]
Monika Ardelt on How to Become Wise
Only within the last decade has this been possible to measure the wisdom of a person, largely due to the […]
Edmund Rice – Social Entrepreneur
Edmund Rice, a successful Irish businessman, had the world at his feet. And yet he gave away his fortune in […]
Tom Seeley and the Wisdom of Bees
What can honeybees teach us about wisdom? One person who knows is Cornell University’s Professor Thomas D. Seeley, the world’s […]
Sully: Can-Do Wisdom in Action
The award-winning movie Sully, staring Tom Hanks as US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, reminds us of a good-news story […]
Ian Kiernan – Change Master
If there is one person who epitomises the maxim “change yourself, change others, change the world”, it is Ian Kiernan, […]
Ella Ingram – Change Instigator
Do you read every page of the fine print in the terms and conditions when taking out travel insurance? In […]
John Birrell – Change Instigator
In 1959, when Victoria Police Surgeon Dr John Birrell started to give public talks on the effects of alcohol on […]
Exploring the Relational Domain: The seatbelt story
Different roles played by individuals and their place in society is central to the Can-Do Wisdom Framework.
Transforming the Rational Decision Making Process – Part 3
Part 3 – The Relational Domain The Relational Domain has the accumulation of millions of years of relationship experience from […]
Transforming the Rational Decision Making Process – Part 2
Part 2 – Rational Domain Bottlenecks But things don’t always go smoothly in achieving results. Bottlenecks are blockages or distortions […]