This is a very brief post to mark the launch of this site - the date being the 22nd of April, 2024. One of the purposes for doing so is to collate the large number of posts I have spread around the web and turn the blog on this site into an archive1 (it will be an “active” archive as I …

Last year I was involved in some work looking at the past-present-future of certain aspects of Australian HP sport, attempting to surface patterns, “rate limiters” and opportunities. One of the interesting things that started to emerge was Australian national team sport results. However …

Today we (Ash Ross, Dave Reynolds and myself) were delighted to have Alexis Lebedew join and continue the conversation on coaching and coach development in Australia. Across an hour we covered…. Alexis’ journey - volleyball playing/coaching, performance analysis, gymnastics, coach …

Today I had the pleasure of hosting Ash Ross, Dave Reynolds and Sean Douglas for a conversation on coaching and coach development in Australia. You can listen to the audio recording below. We meander through a landscape of topics, starting with personal life/sport journeys, transitioning from …

The previous post in this series featured Henry Mintzberg’s critique of New Public Management and its propensity for mindless measurement. As such, late last week I returned to the main protagonist of this series, Dee Hock, and sought out a collation of his thoughts regarding measurement. This …

Part II in this series referenced Dee Hock’s observation that data is abundant, whilst wisdom is scarce. Dee’s comments were published in 2005 yet feel particularly resonant in the present day. In a couple of posts (1 & 2) Gerry McGovern tries to help us grasp the almost unfathomable escalation …