This week's Strictly Boardroom column tells a tale of a management consultant's visit to the orchestra and a management academic's horror it has recommendations. The piece is really a call for more professional respect between silos, recognising the value of other professionals' skills and that good professionals are good professionals, no matter what the profession. The article is entitled: “On… Read this post →
Catching up on last week's Strictly Boardroom, we looked at an arcane and colloquial example of poor strategic foresight: the demise of Sydney Ferries with the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The lesson is that not all major events are unforeseeable, however, 'paradigm lock' often means that those forming the strategy often cannot see the ready evidence of big… Read this post →
This week Allan Trench (University of Western Australia – UWA) and I complete our Dickensian trilogy on mining and politics in the Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewPremium.net. This week we are visited by the ‘ghosts of politics yet to come’, with some help from Dicken's characters: Scrooge, Fezziwig, Marley and Cratchit. The characters shape four different scenarios for how the… Read this post →
This week Allan Trench (University of Western Australia – UWA) and I continue our Dickensian tale of mining and politics in the Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewPremium.net. This week we consider the 'ghosts of politics present', most notably Donald Trump, but also the likes of Bernie Sanders, Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn, Pauline Hanson and even Bill Shorten, and what they… Read this post →
Allan Trench (University of Western Australia - UWA) and I start the Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewPremium.net this year, with the first in a three-part Dickensian inspired piece on mining and politics, that looks to explain the political ructions of 2016 and what they mean for the future of the mining sector. The work is inspired by and drawn from… Read this post →
