A recent study shows that 90% of companies believe that their core business is threatened by new digital competitors. Take Airbnb and Netflix to name a few. Technology is making it easier for companies, such as these who are agile and customer-centric, to enter markets that were not accessible before. Agile, customer-centric, and tech savvy companies …
Download the Exercise | Download the Instructions We are fast approaching the end of year. If you’re leading a team like I am, you will be rushing to deliver important work before the end of the year and will most likely finish up with the Christmas party and team lunches where you will most likely …
Silo mentality causes inefficiency, information hoarding and game-playing in workplaces. Although hard to measure, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a business with an engrained culture of divisive silos can’t have an agile, customer-focused and innovative culture. Yet, these are the very values that businesses must adopt to thrive in this new age …
More than two out of five CEO’s now expect their next competitive threat to come from outside their industry. (CEO insights from the Global C-Suite study – IBM Institute of Business value). Business needs the creativity of their workforce to compete with these new competitors. 100% of successful businesses know how to unlock the creativity of …
It’s mid-September 1999. I’m sharing the dark-chocolate oak boardroom table with 8 Executives who’ve flown in from all over Australia and New Zealand to attend our monthly Executive Leadership meeting. We spend the first 20 minutes discussing the threat of the Millennium bug, otherwise known as Y2K. Believe it or not, once-upon-a-time software was programmed …
I was one of the millions of people left frustrated on Tuesday night after not being able to complete the Census, although it didn’t surprise me. I figured it would be up-and-running before long with the bugs ironed out and we would just do a ‘take-two’ on it. The people I’ve spoken to also found …
The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer found that in Australia only 54% people trust the company for which they work and only 25% believe that CEO’s are performing when it comes to treating employees well. Amalgamate this research with the eye-opening research by The Future of Work in Australia (an Oxford Economics Survey sponsored by SAP), …
Your team mate (or team foe) is just not pulling his weight. He comes in late, bleary-eyed, looking like he’s played GTA all night and rarely delivers his commitments on time which means your work is often delayed. When you finally get his piece of the project you work the extra hours to correct a …
The trend by technology-related businesses and internal technology departments to adopt the Agile framework has seen a surge in the engagement of leadership educators to up-skill their managers with a more facilitative style. The top-down, traditional way of managing people is getting in the way of fully embracing this new way of doing business. The …
At the relatively young age of 26 I landed my first role as a Human Resources Manager. I knew some managers were skeptical that I could be effective in this important role, given my youth. I was determined to prove them wrong. At this time our company policies about sexual harassment, harassment and bullying policies …
