Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.