<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title></title>
	<link>http://spandah.com/blog</link>
	<description>Transforming Companies and Empowering people</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:10:11 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.0" -->

	<item>
		<title>Money down the drain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A German pensioner caused havoc in the sewers of the northern German city of Kiel recently when he flushed nearly Aud$50,000 worth of deutschmarks down his toilet in the mistaken belief that the currency was worthless since the introduction of the Euro. Sewerage workers were able to recover about half the money from the man&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spandah.com/blog/?p=44</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Company Secretaries asking the hard questions: Ensuring quality information reaches the Board.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Changes to governance and compliance requirements over the past decade have placed greater demands on boards. One of the consequences of those changes is that the role of the Company Secretary is evolving from an administrative/compliance function to embrace a broader leadership and strategic role, and to play a crucial part in linking the board and management. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spandah.com/blog/?p=36</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Carbon footprint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already seen Al Gore&#8217;s DVD An Inconvenient Truth, get it this weekend and listen and watch it carefully. Then discuss it with your family and people at work, and ask &#8216;What can we do immediately to reduce our carbon footprint?&#8217; Al Gore&#8217;s slide show contained one particular segment that was inescapable. That was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spandah.com/blog/?p=32</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Corporate Responsibility below Board level &#8211; middle managers in the firing line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Government is currently considering amending the Corporations Act to extend corporate duties, and civil and criminal liabilities, below Board and Executive levels to encompass other managers. If the amendments under consideration are enacted, managers will need to know how to ask the hard questions. In 2005 the Government&#8217;s Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spandah.com/blog/?p=5</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Project Management profession &#8211; raising the bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why some of your organisation&#8217;s projects did not work out as well as you expected, despite the fact that your project team followed the accepted principles and practices of project management? You may find the answer in a new global Competency Standard for  Complex Project Managers that was launched at the recent ProMAC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spandah.com/blog/?p=16</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Twenty somethings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifty percent more twentysomethings live with their parents, half as many have a family of their own, twice as many are studying, fifty percent more hold post-school qualifications, and a greater percentage are participating in the workforce (with a significant gain by women and a decrease by men). According to a study by the Australian Bureau of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spandah.com/blog/?p=47</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
