Darren Cronshaw

Reading Time: 3 minutes Simon Sinek’s TED talks have reached over 100 million people. His first and most famous talk from 2009 was “How great leaders […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Run for Your Life is a delightful, courageous and down-to-earth book about a champion’s discovery and perseverance as a runner, alongside her fight […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Note: Content within this book and review regarding family trauma, mental health challenges and suicide may be distressing to some people.   Augustus […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes As I reflect on capacity for leadership and resilience in the context of significant changes, part of where I need to do […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes Stephen Covey is internationally respected as a teacher of leadership development and organisational health. His most popular book, The 7 Habits of Highly […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lots of soldiers come to their Physical Training Instructor asking for advice on how to get a faster Basic Fitness Assessment. Sometimes […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are like the average ADF member, you have likely struggled with injury from some exercise or another. Running is an […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes A Life Without Limits is a delightful sport auto-biography by legendary Ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington. Part of her inspiration is that Chrissie […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Warning: Content within this review and book regarding trauma and mental health challenges may be distressing to some people.  Support is available through […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Pink’s assertion that “there’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does” challenges the classic “carrots and sticks” model of […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Royal Australian Corps of Signals (RASIGS) is looking back into its history and reflecting on its present environment and future challenges, […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Fifth Discipline is my all-time favourite book on leadership for change and development.  The author Peter Senge is a master of […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dysfunctional team behaviours can derail our mission objectives and make the workplace miserable. When Commanders and subordinates lock horns over decisions, when […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes This book has two great strengths – firstly its inspiring stories. Beginning with Captain Will Swenson’s heroic actions in Afghanistan showing heroic courage […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Defence Strategic Review urges a rapidly evolved integrated Force that harnesses affects across domains including Cyber (p.54). It recommends “cyber and information capabilities […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes L. David Marquet trained to command the USS Olympia, but then at the last moment was vectored to command USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered Los Angeles […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Note: Content within this review regarding trauma and mental health challenges may be distressing to some people.   Not just soldiers are exposed […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes RAAF has had a remarkable history and chaplaincy has grown and developed alongside and in support. Sky Pilot narrates the development of chaplaincy organisationally […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes What does it take to perform as best as we can? And how do we help those we train to develop their […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Chaplain Matthew Stuart at Kapooka inspired my curiosity about Kokoda when he said Australia looks back to Gallipoli as the founding moment […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes  It is a sad fact of history that the history of religion and the history of war are often enmeshed. Religion, which […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes A problem of Just War Theory is that most governments who engage in military action assert their cause is just, but what […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Note: Content within this article regarding mental health, suicide and trauma may be distressing to some people.   Veteran suicides number 500 in […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes  Note: Content within this article regarding mental health issues may be distressing to some people.   I tell recruits that one of the […]