When we ticked over two decades in business last June, the question was what we might do to mark the occasion when a party in COVID-times didn’t really work so well. Well, wonder no more – we went with the virtual party and put a whole bunch of our experiences and thoughts into a book….
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A lot goes on for our team besides what might end up in a client report, or as part of another paper that we are thinking about. For example, we are all involved in community service work, which often connects to our professional skills – but then there are also bunches of interesting things that happen in the swirl of our coffee-induced reality!!
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Two decades …
Goodness, what was that whooshing sound? Two decades going by filled with people, questions, reports, research, yet more questions, and, of course, copious amounts of coffee in all of its forms! When we ticked over 20 years in business today, it was sobering to think just how much has been jam-packed into such a vast…
Corona coffee: back to the future
Deep into the Delta wave of COVID-19 – which for those of us in Sydney means pretty hard core lockdown – we’ve run out of interesting new craft projects to fill in the hours, so are reduced to doing the long-overdue filing, and cleaning out the bottom drawer of the office cupboards. Sad stuff really,…
Corona coffee: and it’s a . . . book!
As we reach a year since the first rumblings of COVID-19, we are more than a little chuffed to see the release of the book written by our Managing Director, Carolyn Evans. Published by Brill | Nijhoff, based in the Netherlands, the book becomes Volume 61 in their series ‘Legal Aspects of International Organizations‘. The…
Corona coffee: still time for (plenty of) refills
Stop press: Well not really, this is hardly a newsflash when the project is some months in, but it is another moment in getting to the finish line with one of our special initiatives for the covidtimes. Our resident expert on all things governance and accountability, Managing Director Carolyn Evans, has at last received the…
Cheers!
Our languages guru, Alan Evans, has graduated from his studies at Keio University in Tokyo, completing a Master’s degree in Media and Governance. Any old time, such an achievement by one of our team members would be cause for many a celebratory coffee hereabouts. But in covidtimes, with all of the untidyness and uncertainty about…
Corona coffee: and now the long brew time
It’s done. In the latest chapter of ‘what to do when you are locked down in a pandemic’, our Managing Director Carolyn has sent the full manuscipt of her forthcoming book to the publisher to be delivered into the waiting hands of typesetters. But don’t start holding your breath in anticipation just yet. Typesetting is…
Corona coffee: just add caffeine
Whoosh – or at least, whoosh in the sense of the usually-glacially-slow-publishing-process, raised to the power of a COVID-induced-reality! It is a common story to hear how book projects take considerably longer than expected, have myriad delays, and come to fruition long after might have been expected in comparison to commercial projects. Not this time…
Corona coffee: getting a WFH dividend
As consultants who have used a flexible working approach for our entire corporate existence (like, since before it became trendy, or now a necessity due to COVID-19), working from home is not exactly novel, and we have come in to the corona coffee era with more than a few relevant skills. Not least, we are…
Corona coffee: less barista, more home-brew
Like everyone, we are a bit stunned by the onset of COVID-19 as a world-wide phenomenon, and scrambling to work out what living and working in a coronavirus reality will look like. As a niche business that survived the 2008 GFC, and actually thrived in that environment, we’d like to think we can work it…
Coffee party
Just to confirm that all the coffee did actually culminate in a party, here is the evidence from the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law graduation held on 8 May 2019. Our Managing Director, now Dr Carolyn Evans CSC, received her degree from Chancellor David Gonski.
One last sabbatical postcard
In a step known as ‘administrative conferral’, yesterday our Managing Director, Carolyn Evans, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New South Wales, ahead of a later opportunity for graduation celebrations. Her doctoral thesis is entitled Towards a more accountable United Nations Security Council – why, to whom, for what,…
A few tears with your coffee
Today we are sniffling a little as we bid a very fond farewell to our long time colleague Tanya van der Wall. After 15 years with ThinkEvans, Tanya is leaving us for a full time role with Commercial Eyes, a specialist consultancy based in Melbourne and focussed on pharmaceuticals, life sciences and related business. As…
It’s not just you …
If you thought the last two years were just a bit odd, with everything blowing hot and cold on a seemingly random basis, it really isn’t just you. We may have come to expect that from climate-change induced weather, but political leaders in many places have been giving the weather a run for its money….
Coffee time thought starters for getting back in the (board) saddle
With the Australia Day holiday nearly gone for another year, workplaces of Australia are leaving behind the summer break and getting back into gear for the year ahead. To start some thoughts on the governance task ahead for all our colleagues on boards and in senior exec teams, its our shout for the virtual coffee…
Coffee on the road: count the cups!
We had the pleasure this week of receiving a whole bunch of nice messages from clients and colleagues on reaching a milestone to which many a small business aspires – 15 years of work together! It doesn’t seem that long until we take a look back over the kaleidoscope of projects that we have had…
Coffee on the road: Enough! on April fools day
In an era of populism writ large in global events, seen equally in ‘any-opinion-will-do-if-I-shout-it-loud-enough’ leadership and public debate that often seems to have only a passing acquaintance with facts and reasoned logic, many of our clients and colleagues on boards are facing quite tough times in holding the line on more mature and considerate leadership….
Coffee on the road – our word for the year
Big surprise – no, really, an actual surprise – our word for 2017 is not ‘coffee’! This year we are going public with our choice to applaud all those mature decision makers who know when to hold ’em, when to fold ’em, and when to walk off into the sunset for the next challenge –…
Coffee on the road – what a difference an accent makes!
We might not be much given to knitting our own yoghurt or weaving muesli here at ThinkEvans, but we are pretty darn serious about sustainability. For us its about being able to keep your promises to stakeholders – not just this week or next week, but next month and next year and the year after…
Sabbatical postcard – no time to wish for coffee
A self-confessed cynic about process improvement, which too often fails from want of a clear objective, I am delighted to report a customer service experience that seems to shine as an exception. It was so fast and efficient there was no time to wish for a coffee while waiting in line for service! The early indications…
Congratulations!
After more than five years and two children, we are delighted to congratulate Sharna on the conferral of her PhD. Her thesis is entitled ‘Talking About Talent: Conceptualising Talent Management Through Discourse’. Her research ’employs discourse analysis in order to understand how the concepts of “talent” and “talent management” are socially constructed within an organisational…
Sabbatical postcard … coffee on the road to international peace & security
In the first public airing of her thesis research, Managing Director Carolyn Evans this week presented her work at the Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law Postgraduate Workshop, held in Canberra on the eve of the Society’s annual conference. Using her experience in governance for government, commercial and nonprofit organisations, Carolyn presented her…
Sabbatical postcard … coffee on the “crowded” road
On sabbatical from consulting, while travelling in England for her PhD research Managing Director Carolyn Evans has discovered a whole new meaning to fighting the crowd to get coffee. Staying at the University of Warwick in Coventry, this was the crowd scene at the local coffee spot on the banks of the River Sherbourne. Having…
Coffee on the (long, long) road
Embarking on the long, long road to a PhD, our Managing Director Carolyn was this week advised she will receive an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA). Her scholarship is tenable for three years. Carolyn was also awarded a further scholarship by the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, given to top-ranked APA recipients in recognition…
Cake with your coffee on the road
Join our virtual workplace event in August – support the cause and get a cake! We are supporting the Red Cross Big Cake Bake event this year, and will be handing out the cakes that we make to those who contribute to our fundraising for this wonderful cause. To make a donation, click on the…
Coffee while paddling on the road to human rights
We may not have needed more inspiration from coffee to paddle hard in the Amnesty International Australia dragon boat team, but we sure did need a reviver between races! As part of a team of volunteers put together just for the Chinese New Year festival at Darling Harbour in Sydney, ThinkEvans Managing Director Carolyn and…