Archive for the ‘Living Organisation’ Category

Leadership in a DIGITAL AGE

A DIGITAL AGE? The digital age is far more than the automation, digitisation and use of the many technologies that enable our e-commerce capabilities. It reflects the new social and economic order that pervades our markets, organisations and societies as a whole. It’s about people’s desire and […]

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Examine the DARK side of your leadership

Examine the DARK side of your leadership

ATYPICAL BEHAVIOURS I have been reflecting on my business experiences over the last 12 months. As with most of you, I found this to be a particularly challenging time. Happily our own business activity remained reasonably buoyant, but a key feature was the uncharacteristically difficult behaviour I […]

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Organisations don’t have one culture

Many leaders set out to develop a “one culture” organisation, in the belief that this will unite them and make them more effective. But a unitary culture is usually not possible – and can be quite detrimental to the performance of the organisation. Listen to how you can create […]

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Does (management) education teach you anything?

It’s become quite fashionable these days to criticize the value of our education system. And I don’t mean the criticism focused on lifting Australian educational standards to match international best practice. This is necessary if we want to retain our place as a truly competitive nation. No, […]

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There’s no future in predicting the future

The new normal The term “new normal” has been coined to describe this period of incessant change and uncertainty. It explains that we have a set of new dynamics in the ever-changing global economy. As such, our conventional planning approaches are no longer effective. Why? Because they […]

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