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Harnessing hate and division, when it has been so thoroughly stoked by the orange despot and his mates afar, must be incredibly enticing to a young man with extreme political aspirations … Now that the hate machine of our domestic far right has run on from the racism they whipped up in the voice referendum… Read more

How would it play out, in the media, and I guess I’d better include the courts, if a bloke at a community gathering with senior politicians – cabinet ministers – did a Ron Casey on one of them? See, I nearly did this in 2008. I REALLY nearly did it! I was recovering from a… Read more

OK, it seems that you three gentlemen – Niall Ferguson, Bill Ackman and Elon Musk – have taken it upon yourselves to tear down diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures on behalf of the conservative Elites as a part of this broad ‘anti-woke’ agenda so I will take it upon myself to respond to your… Read more

This graphic demonstrates why each COP must be evaluated relative to the task or effort required from that moment, NOT by a simple comparison to previous COPs. And that is why it is ridiculous to listen to self-congratulations about the first admission of the need to transition from using fossil fuel in energy systems in… Read more

Imagine you are a pilot – a good pilot – but you know next to nothing about the mechanics and engineering of a plane. You are on a remote island which is the site of an airplane servicing facility with 100 airplane engineers and mechanics and one other pilot.  A tsunami alert has been triggered and… Read more

Elliott opened his eyes one final time, and looked at the world with a loving smile, no doubt noting the ‘Roosevelt weather’ being enjoyed by the bustling humanity outside the window of his Scottsdale home, long jet streaks visible across an azure sky. He gently squeezed Patricia’s hand before his own softened and his ultimate… Read more

In the movie “Along Came Polly” Rueben Feffer’s Dad did not say a lot, but when he did, he nailed it. The question has always been how to establish a mindset whereby ‘the ride’ can be enjoyed because throughout human history it has been understood that some who would appear to have so little reason… Read more

A Father and Son Fireside Podcast In a warm setting reminiscent of the sitting room in the Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate, fire burning comfortingly behind them, a father sits talking with his middle-aged son, a conversation so evocative that occasional footage of actual recorded history or animation of concepts occasionally filters through their mind. The… Read more

Harry Truman, who had been Vice President for all of 82 days on the 12th of April 1945, had just adjourned the day and was sharing a drink in the office of the House Speaker when he got an urgent call to immediately go to the White House. Once there Eleanor Roosevelt informed him that… Read more

During a business trip to New York in June 1940, Elliott stopped over in Washington to stay with his parents in the White House. Over breakfast Elliott pressed his Dad about business taxes, but for both men their minds were really on other business. The American press had speculated all through Spring on whether FDR… Read more

The timeline commences in the late 1930s, as America and the rest of the world struggle to emerge from the depths of the Great Depression, and is told through the eyes of Elliott Roosevelt, the son of perhaps the greatest American President in Franklin Delano Roosevelt immortalised simply as ‘FDR’. “The country needs and, unless… Read more

“Reset” uses a retelling of post-WWII history contrasted with two alternate histories to highlight the choices that humanity has made to arrive at a moment where regionally and globally humanity lacks the cohesion to address the serious issues that we together confront. By highlighting these divergences, told predominantly through the perspective of Elliott Roosevelt, the… Read more

For me this story took root when I bought from Amazon “Speeches That Changed The World” (compiled by Owen Collins, Westminster John Knox Press, 1999) while I was living in Europe in 2001-02. I remember being awestruck especially by the First Inaugural speech by President Washington and his humility, integrity, and authenticity stuck with me.… Read more

But you need to be honest with yourself above all else I think it is only natural that people want to believe that they are good contributors to humanity. But what to do when humanity appears to ‘turn on you’, once working for an employer and/or doing a role which you perceived many around you… Read more

To those who argue schools should not have closed – with full hindsight of what happened through the COVID pandemic rather than in the heat of moment not yet having a clear indication of the infection fatality rate (IFR), nor lifestage susceptibility variances, let alone long term implications from single or multiple infection, which we… Read more

Those truly seeking productive workforces need to fit a bell curve to work tasks – not workers – to eradicate value-destroying, demoralising work There has been much talk recently of how organisations still adhere to the Jack Welch strategy of fitting a bell curve to performance of a workforce to pressure employees to increase productivity.… Read more

Quiet Quitting – An employee doing what they are paid to do to the best of their ability, but doing no more. At its basis this is about a worker setting boundaries to not be exploited by an employer and is thus a rejection of Extreme capitalism that assumes an employee will accept any and… Read more

Quiet quitting – the term – is a misnomer.  Most assume that it is about quitting on a job. It is not. It is about quitting, or refusing to participate, in a system that has progressively become unsustainable because it is unfulfilling and unhealthy to those within it. Extreme capitalism is what is being quit!… Read more

In “The Great Reset: An explainer” I gave a brief description of the political and economic backdrop that led to humanity entering the pandemic at a moment of social extreme with a paradigm shift due or even overdue. I explained that trends in society tend to occur in cycles that can be conceptualised as a… Read more

At this point in the Great Reset era we have heard most about the Great Resignation (or Great Reshuffle) which is unsurprising as businesses wonder aloud why they are finding it challenging to retain their workers and how to attract talented workers. Some employers are even sceptical, and have suggested workers may regret their actions,… Read more

The underlying premise of what many say here at LinkedIn – especially those employed in the corporate wellness sector, either embedded in organisations or as external consultants – is that addressing wellness is good for the bottom line. While I recognise the accuracy of this statement, I find it confronting. Since work culture is a… Read more

Anybody who wishes to monetise their ‘social’ activities on the internet knows that they should frequently remind the human beings they are engaging with of the value of those activities. In other words, they must post frequently lest their engagement metrics decline along with their potential earnings. I said from the outset that I was… Read more