Are you ready to lead overseas?
Kets de Vries, Manfred. ‘Are You Ready To Lead Overseas?’. Acuity 2.4 (2015): 58-59. Print. Working in a foreign country can be a great experience. It can also be the biggest mistake of your life. THE STRESS OF living in an alien environment can shatter the most stable of relationships and leave you wondering just […]
Good Governance
Johnson, Alexandra. ‘Good Governance’. Acuity 2.4 (2015): 62-65. Print. Experienced director and board chair Paulo Dwyer on good governance, good governments, and taking a gamble. MELBOURNE-BASED Paula Dwyer FCA is a seasoned director and board chair, but she didn’t set out in her career to deliberately become so. Now chairman of Tabcorp Holdings Limited and […]
Profiting from Happiness
Blayney, M. (2015). Profiting from Happiness. In The Black, March 2015. A smile can go a long way in a healthy workplace. A recent study from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business discovered that happy employees work harder than unhappy ones, call in sick less frequently, go the extra mile when performing a […]
Changing change management
Gettler, Leon. ‘Changing Change Management’. Acuity 2.3 (2015): 48. Five tips from management guru Tom Peters on how to make change management programmes work by Leon Gettler TOM PETERS , one of the world’s most influential management thinkers, burst on to the scene 33 years ago with the publication of In Search of Excellence, an […]
A general thinker’s tips for entrepreneurs
Giuffre, Remo. ‘A General Thinker’s Trips For Entrepreneurs’. Acuity 2.3 (2015): 40. Print. THERE ARE GOOD, bad and ugly things about being an entrepreneur. It’s a sporadically very rewarding but often very hard life. Financial security is rarely a feature. Superannuation? What’s that? If, as an entrepreneur, you could choose another life, maybe you would. […]