A recent Background Briefing was devoted to the culture of MBAs. It claimed that the arrogance fostered in business schools like Harvard encouraged the reckless financial speculation which triggered the current global crisis.
The program featured the views of Will Hopper, an economist and author of The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse and Revival of an [...]
Posts Tagged ‘furniture’
Craft of management redux
Time to take a front seat
Congratulations to Simone LeAmon for winning the 2009 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award which opened at the National Gallery of Victoria last night. Her Lepidoptera chair continues the creative use of recycled materials that she had forged in her classic Bowling Arm bracelets.
Other entrants included Adam Cornish, Lambie Chan, Lucas Chirnside, Matthew [...]
Tabling our differences
Melbourne-based furniture maker Damien Wright was recently commissioned to make the central table for the new Koori Court in Morwell, Gippsland. The opening was an emotional event. It felt like the two cultures, Koori (indigenous to south-east Australia) and Gubba (word for non-indigenous to those Kooris), were finding a common ground that was even than [...]
