There has been a lot of discussion in class about the “falling out” between the Adelaide Advertiser and the Adelaide Fringe, resulting in the Advertiser not registering any reporters this year to produce official Adelaide Fringe reviews. My students are confused, as are many artists, so I have taken the opportunity to apply some MBA […]

Great news. My new show – 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword – has awarded The Advertiser with five stars for not coming to review it. With the absence of “mainstream” reviewers, it has forced our faculty to thrust their appurtenances between the sheets of whatever books they’ve been reading, slip into […]

I nearly choked on a bone tonight as my InDaily-wrapped, homemade fish and chips went down the wrong way when spotting the article, Anger As The Advertiser Dumps Fringe Reviews. According to the report, a [sic] spokesman for The Advertiser said the newspaper’s coverage decisions were based on its readers’ interests. Now, if you recall […]

In today’s fast-paced business world, traditional education methods just don’t cut it anymore. That’s why the MBA School of MBA Credentials has made the revolutionary decision to adopt AI Automated Learning processes, and it’s paying off big time. Gone are the days of boring lectures delivered by tired professors. Instead, our lectures are carefully crafted […]

During my recent sabbatical I subscribed to a wonderful mindfulness meditation app called Waking Up, which has inspired me to produce the world’s first MBA Mindfulness Meditation. Sam Harris is the neuroscientist behind the Waking Up app and he described the enterprise of mindfulness meditation in an interview with The Minimalists, in which he said: […]

I have been drawn out of my sabbatical to comment on the Flinders University decision to close Southgate Institute, by a number of academics and students in South Australia. It is not my place to meddle in the affairs of other tertiary institutions. However, on this occasion, there is much angst and anger, so I […]

Sir Frank Seeley, of Seeley International fame, has always been an inspiration to me and my students at the MBA School of MBA Credentials. And my respect deepened enormously after working closely the the insightful leader when he engaged me to address the Seeley International VIP conference on Hamilton Island recently. While there are many […]

When people ask me what it’s like being on top and what my trick is for maintaining this position, I can quite simply say it’s because I expose myself daily. MBA Thinking doesn’t come easily at first. It’s something that needs to be nurtured. And for me, I find that daily stimulation has  paid off, […]

Having been made aware that many people are struggling during this return to lockdown restrictions, I crafted a special, Lunchtime Lockdown Lecture to bring you some relief, some inspiration, and indeed a shot in the arm – both literally with vaccination, and figuratively with some MBA THINKING. In this lecture, I explored three themes. Applying […]

I took academia to the masses last night at a comedy event called, Cranker Comedy. This weekly gathering in Adelaide attracts a full house of “punters” venturing out to enjoy a mix of emerging and experienced comedians at the Crown and Anchor Hotel. Not being a comedian, I opted to use my time to conduct […]

This article came to pass because one of our MBA students, who is from Port Pirie, bemoaned the fact that their town was named the most “shit town” of Australia by the Shit Towns of Australia newsletter. It intrigued me that they were so upset by a fictitious entity’s made up label but as I […]

The Hulu network is launching a new documentary this weekend called, WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn. See trailer below. It covers the rise and fall of wework, an American commercial real estate company that markets flexible and shared workspaces for technology start-ups and services for other enterprises. The company […]

The academic world in Victoria is in shock after its top universities drew the strongest dissatisfaction ratings from students in the federal government-commissioned 2020 Student Experience Survey. In the survey, the University of Melbourne and Monash University “recorded the largest declines in students’ overall ratings of their education experience”, according to this Sydney Morning Herald […]

Some people believe The MBA School Of MBA Credentials exists in an alternative universe but whether or not that’s true, there are universal issues that demand vigilance and the lifting of heads out of books, no matter which dimension or era one exists in. And one such issue is the need for justice and action […]

I had a little taste of media exposure today, when asked to appear on a television program to discuss employees having time off through the day to attend A Lunchtime MBA. It began as a discussion about the importance of the business lunch. This is something very important to all MBAs because we know much […]

What do you value? And how do you realise the value of anything? These are questions we’ve been wrestling with while running A Lunchtime MBA, in which students can attend our daily sessions at Treasury 1860, grab a lunch and a drink, and leave with an MBA Degree for the princely sum of $50. Is […]

I am convinced that artists hold the key to our world’s future, which is why I was delighted to have been asked to formally open a new art exhibition by Campbelltown Arthouse Inc for the 2021 Adelaide Fringe. I was doubly delighted when I discovered the theme of the exhibition is Wave. This is because […]

I was telling my good lady wife about a chance meeting I had with Dr Gill Hicks in the bushes of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, while discussing her 2021 Adelaide Fringe show, Alive And (still kicking). She has long been an admirer of Dr Gill’s and she relayed to me something that had come up in conversation […]

South Australia’s Department Of Premier And Cabinet, has released a document this weekend entitled, Future Adelaide: State Of Illumination. And this glossy magazine and website – futureadl.com.au – are certainly shining a light on some of the best and most exclusive aspects of South Australia you can imagine. From pristine underwater scenes to dusk photography […]

It was drawn to my attention that Tim Minchin AM will not be appearing at the 2021 Adelaide Fringe, leaving the role of higher education messaging to my good self. It is a heavy burden to bear but I do so gladly. What do we have in common? We both command stages in front of […]

It is with much surprise that I awoke today to news that consultancy firm, Deloitte, expects its partners to retire at the ripe age of 62. This is very surprising, when one considers that Deloitte is probably home to more MBAs per capita than any other firm on the planet. How could this haven for […]

I know this headline makes a bold claim but as someone who lives by MBA Thinking I cannot afford to shirk my responsibility to speak the truth. There are many sources of self-help information and pop-culture leaders who preach that happy workplaces are healthy. Oh, how I wish that were true. But, alas, the data […]

Many students have asked me to analyse the GameStop phenomenon that has taken Wall Street and the popular press by storm. And it is healthy that a new crop of MBAs should be keen as mustard to learn from the experiments and mistakes of others to seek new ways of deriving profit from strategic street […]

Let’s face facts. The Adelaide Crows aka Adelaide Football Club has fallen from grace in recent years and it does not augur well for the year when the first official duty of Chairman John Olsen at last night’s 2021 season launch was to announce the resignation of CEO Andrew Fagan. If ever an organisation needed […]

Australia could be standing at a crossroads right now, looking both ways to read the economic traffic, and trying to determine whether it’s safe to cross, better to disrupt, or more appealing to jaywalk it’s way to new possibilities faster. But there’s one thing holding us back. Most of us are not on the road. […]

I’ve been puzzling recently, over why breakfast radio promotional photographs look so similar. The thought was stirred by a friend of mine and former radio person, Steve Davis. He shared a montage of radio show promo shots drawn from one issue of the industry newsletter, Radioinfo. Despite the images all being rather pixelated, do you […]

We are apolitical at the MBA School Of MBA Credentials. Our challenge is to view the world through the lens of curiosity and apply MBA Thinking whenever problems need solutions. And such a problem has arisen in some LinkedIn discussions I have been involved with in the wake of some US institutions like Middlebury College […]

Denmark’s equivalent of the ABC, DR, has launched a TV show for children aged 4-8 about a man with a penis that can grow very, very, very long and often gets him into trouble. His name is John Dillermand, with Diller being Danish slang for penis. And my argument is that focussing on well-endowed genetalia […]

A student who has enrolled for A Lunchtime MBA during the Adelaide Fringe Semester next month, has posed an interesting question. Why do posts about poop in our community Facebook Group get 10 times the discussion and engagement compared to posts about generous sales and promotions? I was busy at the time so my number […]