Elder Wisdom: Thriving on Hope in a Cynical World
Des is writing a book – and this continues on after his passing with the help of notes, recorded interviews and the help of colleagues and friend. More details coming soon.

Des is writing a book – and this continues on after his passing with the help of notes, recorded interviews and the help of colleagues and friend. More details coming soon.

It’s been a long day, finishing off the update of my 7 Step Business Blog e-book. So much has changed in the two years since that was written, but I believe there are still a lot of business people who want a straightforward, plain English introduction to business blogging. So I feel the exercise was…
My good intentions to post about the ad:tech conference here in Beijing this week have been dented by: the abundance of things to see and experience for someone who has never been to this part of the world before some challenges with internet access. And with only a day and a half to go and…
Some of my better-informed friends and colleagues will perhaps think I’ve been sleeping, but thanks to one of those friends and colleagues – lawyer, blogger, business strategist and all-round provocative thinker Noric Dilanchian – I’ve just discovered the TED website and general TED phenomenon. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984)…
(flag picture courtesy susush) I won’t try and list the many Indian bloggers I know. Or other Indian friends and colleagues. I’ll just wish you all a Happy Republic Day – and at Adelaide Oval may the better team win! 🙂 Des Walsh Business coach and digital entrepreneur. With coach training from Coachville.com and its…
A wartime memory by Des Walsh I don’t think the Japanese would have bombed a dairy farm. That’s what I thought at the time, or what I think I thought. It’s hard to know, at this distance, what belongs to the four-year-old and what belongs to the old man looking back at him. But that…
A wartime memory by Des Walsh People don’t believe me when I tell them about the barbed wire on Coogee beach. They look at me like I’m misremembering, or confusing it with something I saw at the pictures. But I saw it. I walked through it. There was a gap left open like a gate,…