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Twelve Disruptive Technologies You Can’t Afford To Ignore

Disruptive technologies can create significant economic opportunities for their supporters. At the same time they can leave other business models obsolete. Recent examples demonstrate that a lack of response to...

The Three Leverage Points of Leadership

Book Review - Executive Coaching The Breakthrough Company by Keith R. McFarland 2009 McFarland started his research for this book by asking three questions: Why do most companies start small...

The Risks That The World’s Hidden Champions Avoid

The Risk Perspective Book Review: Hidden Champions of the Twenty First Century: Success Strategies of Unknown Market Leaders by Hermann Simon   This review looks specifically at the discussion of risk...

Boards Underperforming in Risk Management

McKinsey Global Institute has published the results of its latest governance survey – “Improving Board Governance”.  This survey collated the responses from 772 company directors globally with 34 percent of...

The Lessons from Break Through Companies

Book Review: Strategy Focus The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Breakthrough Performance The Breakthrough Companyby Keith R. McFarland 2009 by Keith R. McFarland 2009 McFarland...

Strategy Secrets of the Unknown Hidden Champions

The Strategy Perspective Book Review: Hidden Champions of the Twenty First Century: Success Strategies of Unknown Market Leaders by Hermann Simon In a world where large corporations are often considered...

New Guide for Not-For-Profit Governance

The Australian Institute of Company Directors has launched a useful publication Good Goverance Principles and Guidance for the not-for-profit sector. The ten governance principles have been developed after extensive consultation...

Getting Customer Focus into Board Strategy

I really liked this article Giving Marketing A Seat In The Boardroom on the website for Australian Institute of Company Directors. It provides good insight into the importance of customer centric...

Catastrophic Optimism and Avoiding Corporate Collapse

Alice Schroeder, Corporate Director and Advisor at Hawthorn Hill LLC, is the respected author of The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life, a #1 New York Times and...

Crucial Conversations

In 2002, Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler published a book through McGraw Hill called Crucial Conversations and a second edition was published in 2012. The book has sold millions of...

TED Talk: Johanna Blakley: Social Media and The End of Gender

This talk is interesting as Johanna Blakley considers how industry might use data that flows from online consumer behaviour. She suggests that this real data may replace existing outdated age...

Global Megatrends – How will they impact your business?

In 2012, the CSIRO Futures team released the second version of their flagship publication called “Our Future World – the global trends that will change the way we live.“ The...

2012 Victorian Information, Communications & Technology Strategy Review

I recently reviewed the Victorian Information, Communications & Technology (ICT) Strategy which was released for public comment a few weeks ago. It recognises the changing face of public interactions with...

CEO’s Facing New Times

“So far leadership in the 21st century has been a walk on the wild side” or so begins McKinsey’s recent October newsletter and their article on today’s demands of leadership...

TED Talk – Susan Cain – The Power of Introverts

Susan Cain is a former corporate lawyer who challenges us in her TED talk “The Power of Introverts”. She wants us to consider the damage we are doing to the...