Author: Michelle Causton, FCPA, FCGA, MBA
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Fun And Games
Maybe it’s the weather. But, this morning, when I should have been mindlessly drinking my coffee and doing a puzzle – I found myself thinking. I’m a gamer. I have always liked games. And puzzles. I like card games, crossword puzzles and to a lesser extent, jigsaw puzzles. I like sudoku, Wordle, logic games and…
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Silencing The Contrary Voice
I am very concerned about our collective inability to hear a contrary voice. I have long advocated for people to speak up; to make their voice heard. And now, apparently, a voice raised is an invitation to shut it down; to shout it out. A Students’ Union recently decided to dis-invite controversial speaker Frances Widdowson…
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Enough Already!
I’ve been crafting ten-minute instructional and training videos on a variety of topics. I’ve been doing that for a few years now and every time – I run face to face with the question: how much information is enough? I love the challenge of eliminating extraneous information, the challenge of the minimal time frame. Constraint.…
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Choice and Consequence
I’ve been quiet lately. Mostly because there has been too much going on and I didn’t want to add to the noise. A recent conversation with a friend at a picnic table, in the new, intoxicating freedom of stage 3 – made me think that maybe some more noise is necessary. This perfectly nice person…
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Being Right
Right or wrong? It is nice when we get that satisfied feeling that comes from being right. And we don’t understand why anyone would disagree with us. And yet they do. It is actually pretty easy to have an opinion. And it isn’t hard to start to believe that our opinion is the end of…
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It doesn’t matter
It doesn’t matter whether anyone listens. It matters that you say it.
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Brief History of a Geek
I wasn’t always the Excel loving geek you have come to know and love. At some point, I discovered that being a hippy wasn’t a career choice. And while rock and roll was “here to stay”, it wasn’t going to pay the bills. After a brief stint in banking I decided that bookkeeping might not…
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May 1, 2020 – Success
We need to redefine “success”. In business it is often measured by growth. But isn’t there a point at which a business is successful because it is sustainable? A point at which, the business is stable? We persist is seeing everything as a race. Companies have to be bigger, grow faster, achieve more market share.…
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April 30, 2020 Truth
Superstitions, conspiracy theories and knowledge all come from the same place. They fill the desire to understand. People have an inherent desire to know, to make sense of the world and of circumstances – and an unwillingness to accept that perfect knowing is not possible. We expect our leaders to know things we don’t know;…
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April 26, 2020 – Sarcasm
President Trump said he was being sarcastic in response to a question that wasn’t asked. It wasn’t sarcasm. The tone was entirely wrong. His tone was that of wonder. He was momentarily in awe of his own thought process. It was much like a young child saying, “We could take a hammer and we could…
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