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  • Rory Gregg

    Expiry dates and ROI time horizons

    Australian CEOs typically hang on to the job for 8 years before retiring with a golden parachute. The point at which you find a leader within their tenure has a clear influence on strategic business planning and investment decisions. It should be little surprise that when a leader has one eye on the door, they might simply view risks and rewards very differently to those around them.

    28 Oct  /  Written by Rory Gregg
  • Rory Gregg

    Future jobs, innovation, and productivity

    Australian businesses have been achieving consistent improvements due to labour productivity – but gains from innovation have been weak to non-existent in recent years.

    11 Oct  /  Written by Rory Gregg
  • Rory Gregg

    Two and a half approaches to change

    The best outcomes occur when leaders mobilise employee energy and commitment, and articulate a clear set of understandable goals. Instead of micromanaging, flexibility and adaption should be encouraged throughout the organisation. Employees need to be given leeway to solve problems themselves, and the confidence to act.

    21 Sep  /  Written by Rory Gregg
  • Martha Raupp

    Thought-leaders need thoughts – and leadership

    To be a thought leader, you need thoughts. And leadership.

    7 Sep  /  Written by Martha Raupp
  • Rory Gregg

    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
  • Rory Gregg

    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
  • Martha Raupp

    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
  • Rory Gregg

    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
  • Rory Gregg

    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
  • Rory Gregg

    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
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  • Rory Gregg

    Rory is a Partner at Grant Thornton, leading their Business Transformation consulting practice in Sydney. His specialties are business strategy, performance improvement, and transformational change. Follow him on Twitter @rory_gregg

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    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.

  • 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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    Advice for leaders to help refine skills and provide direction and guidance to employees

  • 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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