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Thought-leaders need thoughts – and leadership
To be a thought leader, you need thoughts. And leadership.
7 Sep / Written by Martha Raupp / Leadership -
Succession planning and the cult of the CEO
When it comes to succession planning at key executive levels, timing and communication can be quite critical. Sudden departures can be very disruptive and damaging. This is precisely the time when you need to pull plan B out of your bottom draw, and not the time to go through a long drawn out executive search process.
1 Sep / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership -
Introducing the devil
18 Aug / Written by Mike Gee / Gee's Jive -
Shifting the fundamentals of retail
In any business, it is critical for leaders to regularly revisit the assumptions of their strategic planning. Industry wide structural change doesn’t happen often, but competitive threats can easily turn up at any time.
16 Aug / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership -
Communication counters culture clash
One of the most critical success dependencies of any project is to get your communication plan right.
12 Aug / Written by Martha Raupp / Leadership -
Climbing the value chain
If Australia wants to cling onto a higher rung of the value chain in the face of competition, it will require some serious changes in attitudes towards investment in infrastructure, both at a business and government level.
4 Aug / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership -
Making problems disappear
The next time you carry out a risk management audit, it is worth examining what mechanisms your organisation has in place to detect corruption and guide employees on appropriate behaviour.
15 Jul / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership -
One is never too old to get a job - even at 70!
An inspiring real-life example of a career transition program for a 70 year old gentleman with many career and life lessons to be gleaned from the process.
13 Jul / Written by Peter Black / The Executive Coach -
Planning Innovation
The business of running government is always complicated, with multiple stakeholders to satisfy, conflicting priorities, and intense scrutiny of spending. Make any innovation in service delivery, and you can be sure lobby groups will pressure opposition hopefuls into promises to neuter the changes
6 Jul / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership -
Strategies to enhance mental health in the workplace
The business benefits from a proactive approach to mental health in the workplace include a more engaged workforce who acknowledge the organisation truly caring for their people. Not to mention the benefits that could accrue to affected individuals
1 Jul / Written by Peter Black / The Executive Coach
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Gee's Jive
Mike Gee is the managing editor of ARN. His career spans more than 30 years in daily and weekly newspapers. He was previously Night Editor of SMH Online for nearly five years. In his other life, he has spent 37 years interviewing musicians, reviewing albums and concerts, broadcasting on public radio and writing the odd book. He has won Australia's highest award for journalism, the Walkley, twice. He is a fanatical fisherman.
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Innovation!
In the modern economy with constantly evolving trends, technologies and ideas the companies that don't innovate will be overtaken. Innovation is no longer the domain of R&D, new product development or IT, but instead a core deliverable of every business unit and the foundation of success and profit.
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Leadership
Advice for leaders to help refine skills and provide direction and guidance to employees
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The Executive Coach
Peter Black is an Executive Coach who has been privileged to work with over 400 individuals from predominantly large blue chip and multinational organisations over the past 5 years on career transition, executive coaching and role onboarding programs. More recently, he has worked with members of The Executive Connection, an organisation dedicated to enhancing the lives and improving the effectiveness of CEOs. His blog is a reflection of the composite personal and professional experiences of his clients, particularly those at senior levels, and of his own reinvention having commenced a new career at the age of 48 after 26 years as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Mike Gee
Mike Gee is the managing editor of ARN. He has won Australia's highest award for journalism, the Walkley, twice; is a fanatical fisherman; has published two books and work from his 35 years writing about rock music - in his other universe - and has been anthologised three times. He only reads sci-fi and fantasy and is becoming an ornery old bastard.
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Ross Maher
Ross Maher is the director of Build21c, an innovation project planning and research company that helps companies innovate. His specialities include project definition and set up, and he believes the best innovation occurs through a conversation with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. Learn more at www.build21c.com.au
Modernizing Security for the Small and Mid-Sized Business – Recommendations for 2013 (Sponsored by McAfee)
As small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) take advantage of the compelling benefits of the transformations in their IT computing infrastructure they should also re-think how they deal with the corresponding vulnerabilities, threats and risks. Specifically, email security, web security and secure file sharing should be considered foundational security capabilities for every small and mid-sized business, in addition to anti-virus and firewalls.
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Armidale hosts fastest wireless NBN in Australia: Fusion Broadband
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NextDC wins $60 million-plus major contract
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Cisco overtakes IBM as top Cloud hardware provider, research firm says
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How Windows Red can fix Windows 8: The right strategy for Microsoft
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Conservative activist files lawsuit over NSA surveillance
iAsset is a channel management ecosystem that automates all major aspects of the entire sales,marketing and service process, including data tracking, integrated learning, knowledge management and product lifecycle management.
- Statistics reaffirm breach threat, but executive inaction still impeding security: Black Swan
- Google asks to make surveillance orders public, citing First Amendment
- Expanded '2-person rule' could help plug NSA leaks
- Think like an attacker -- not a consultant
- SMBs having problems with backup, recovery: study
- Social media adds spice to financial services, say banks
- Google Analytics advocate touts plans to own the Universal customer view
- Google asks to make surveillance orders public, citing First Amendment
- ADMA criticises government plans for compulsory data breach notification
- Google Glass privacy concerns raised by international data protection authorities




