Category: Manage and lead the business

As a manager for two decades in the book industry, John Purcell has led people through extraordinary change. As an author, John Purcell is capable of amazing feats of imagination. But away from writing fiction, he’s been heading up Booktopia’s marketing and buying teams, and is now Director of Books, helping the online retailer become […]

In the fierce contemporary business environment, we always hear people ramble on about the importance of innovation. So much so, more organisations are starting to implement workforce innovation days. An innovation day involves the workforce splitting into small teams to try and solve a problem relevant to the business. For companies such as: Suncorp, Microsoft […]

How can you minimise the risk of a project’s timeline and budget blowing out as you work through to completion? By being aware of the inherent biases in our brains, and examining the landscape for insights into similar projects. By Vanessa Mickan. Sydney’s light rail expansion is – surprise, surprise – massively over budget and […]

By Mark Cameron FIML Increased interest in “digital business transformation” within the global business community has been meteoric over the last couple of years. A quick search in Google Trends confirms that. Why is this so, and what does it mean for businesses in Australia? Following the GFC in 2008 the term “digital transformation” was […]

By Dr Selvi Kannan, educator, mentor and Academic Specialist Advisor – Management & Innovation, Victoria University; and Dr Bill Petreski, Principal, Strategy61 Major shifts in the world are placing new demands on businesses, workforces and ultimately education and training. New Resilient Leadership skills are required for the paradigm shift that is upending organisational structures and […]

There is no denying that the contemporary business environment is taking a toll on the mental wellbeing of our workforce. Roles are no longer as permanent as what they used to be, there is a constant pressure to upskill and organisational change is never far around the corner. Understandably, this creates uncertainty and places additional […]

Advancements in technology continue to challenge the recruitment landscape. For job seekers, the internet enables them to view thousands of vacant job opportunities from typing a few words into a search engine and selecting ‘enter.’ Due to the number of opportunities job seekers now have access to, organisations must start looking at ways to make […]

By Lachlan Colquhoun Karen Hayes FIML had decades of experience as a senior manager in business technology consulting when she realised that she wasn’t “bouncing out of bed every morning” to get to work. After time working in Europe and Canada, she found herself back in Melbourne and sitting on a number of boards of […]

Neuroscientist Dr Hannah Critchlow says that managers and leaders have a duty to get their heads around how the brain works. By Lachlan Colquhoun  //  photographs by Paul Musso & Martin Pope Of all the organs, the brain has always been viewed in a different way, and with special reverence. Weighing only 1.5 kilograms, or […]