Conscious capitalism. The business model of the future. The world is on the cusp of the biggest employment disrupter it has ever known. It has been brought about by the technological revolution and will be accelerated with the world of robotics and artificial intelligence. The old model of business primarily driven by short term thinking,…
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Nov
Nov
An anecdotal story. There were very few women in corporate Australia, in senior positions in the 1990’s. I know because I was one of that minority. At the time I became intrigued about why there were so few women in business. Over time almost through osmosis, I decided to do my own anecdotal research as…
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Oct
Oct
In their hearts many Australians know there is a looming employment problem in Australia. It is now almost laughable that the government puts out unemployment statistics that tell the masses that the unemployment rate is falling. If you look behind the magic number, the fall in the unemployment rate is driven by the drop in…
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Oct
Oct
HR like many other functions will be impacted by the changing world of work. For the function to remain strategically relevant and add the value that is required there is no room for complacency. There is a real opportunity for HR to “seize the day”. By being well informed about the technological and demographic trends,…
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Sep
Sep
Have you ever sat in a fast bullet train going at three hundred kilometres an hour? If you have you will have noticed that the landscape flashes past at such a speed that it is often hard to distinguish what you are observing. Time just flashes by and three hundred kilometres fades into insignificance, almost…
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Aug
Aug
The impact of the employment revolution cannot be understated. It is happening faster than previous revolutions with the advent of modern technology. Ironically businesses in the Silicon Valley, which is the home of the largest high tech corporations, are funding research exploring the potential consequences to society, if technology takes over most occupations. Research Projects: …
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Jun
Jun
One hundred and twenty thousand excess workplace deaths are caused by toxic stress in the workplace according to research done at Stanford University. This means that workplace stress is the fifth largest cause of death above diabetes and Alzheimer’s in the USA. Chronic workplace stress is toxic and it is becoming pervasive. It is killing…
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May
May
The collective pulse of our nation is steadily increasing; pushed upwards as Australians are becoming anxious about their ability to gain and maintain the level of employment required to ensure their own economic stability. It is not just a matter of having a job but having sufficient employment. You may have a job but not…
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May
May
Incentives for Corporate Executives (ICE) acts like a drug that can’t be satisfied. Unhappily for the Big Banks, they find themselves in the firing line, under attack to ‘fix’ a culture gone wrong, a greedy culture that has paid scant regard to both clients and good governance. But is there another conversation about an equally greedy and distorting culture…
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Apr
Apr
Breaking through the glass ceiling is relatively easy. I did it almost 20 years ago. But no one told me about the glass trapdoor – that was the shock nothing in my stellar career had prepared me for. At 50 my corporate stiletto slipped on the glass ceiling and I went head first through the…