Jo Mawhinney, Living Edge

WFH Masterclass Top tips for a hard-working home office Living Edge is Australia’s leading retailer of authentic, original and sustainable designer furniture. The company’s showrooms in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and…
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Pondering Productivity

When offices closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, working from home suddenly became the new normal. Now, as the world edges towards business as usual, many of us are…
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Productivity Puzzle

The Productivity Puzzle

Macro: The Productivity Puzzle Productivity is an economic term that refers to the measurement of output per unit of input. In the UK productivity has been measured in order to…
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Theme: Productivity

Two months in, and the WFH (working-from-home) novelty is wearing off. Sure, there’s no early morning commute and no need to do your hair, but there’s also no clear rhythm,…
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Check your Purpose Pulse

It’s week six of lockdown. Needless to say, the novelty has well and truly worn off. We’ve swapped our schedules for sourdough starters and our days are no longer defined…
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Make Your Mark

The most urgent and complicated question we could ever ask ourselves is, Who am I? And there is no better time than now, with the outside world quieter than ever,…
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The Point of Purpose

“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no…
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Local Heroes

On 12 January this year, NOMAD restaurant and head chef Jacqui Chalinor brought together more than 50 of the best chefs and restaurants in Sydney to raise $150,000 for ‘Cook…
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Theme: On Purpose

With the usual rhythms of our lives dramatically disrupted (by COVID-19), this month we dig a little deeper into the point of purpose. What gives us meaning? Drive? Happiness? When…
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In Pursuit of Purpose

If aimless and sameness describe your workday and you’re finding it difficult to distinguish between weekdays and weekends, join the COVID club! Here’s a line-up of purposeful viewing, absorbing reads…
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Purpose Drivers

“Without a sense of purpose, no company, either public or private, can achieve its full potential.” Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, Inc., 2018 Citizens The 2018 World Value…
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Calling all businesses

Let’s get everyone on the same page! As a shared office operator we value the daily rhythms of the workplace. The place, people and interactions create structure, colour and support…
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Resilience in adversity

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what’s happening…
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Connect and carry on

If every cloud has a silver lining, then every global pandemic virus has got to have its perks… right? We’ve seen dolphins re-appearing in Venice’s canals, coal consumption cuts in…
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Solace in Storytelling

As the psychological toll of isolation and social distance began to mount, celebrities dealing with the impact of CoVid19 started reaching for their story books. On March 17 actors Amy…
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