Earlier this year we published a Strictly Boardroom article with some thoughts on management and organisational heirarchies, specifically how to treat those in the hierarchy above and below you, inverting the common aphorism 'kiss up, kick down', with a couple of examples to add light to the prescription. The article is available on MiningNews.net for subscribers, or contact me for… Read this post →
Another popular Strictly Boardroom article from earlier this year was a twist on the 'pay peanuts, get monkeys' saying, with some insight as to how poor corporate culture becomes institutionalized and perpetuated. The article is still available on MiningNews.net or contact me for a copy. For keen followers of the Strictly Boardroom column, our book “Strictly (Mining) Boardroom Volume II:… Read this post →
One of our more popular articles in Strictly Boardroom this year was on the psychology of exploration management, specifically giving teams autonomy. Let's be honest, we all know this, and there are multiple examples of why it should be done and how it works (we cite an academic experiment and an exploration company example in this piece), nonetheless, it is… Read this post →
Earlier in the year, in our Strictly Boardroom column, we considered alternatives to the challenge of vertical integration in the minerals industry. In some commodity industries, such as gold, copper, and nickel sulphides, the majority of the value of the final 'metal' product flows back through to the miner - with smelters, refiners, traders and others further downstream making thin… Read this post →
Never ones to miss a passing bandwagon, earlier in the year we wrote a Strictly Boardroom column on digital currencies. As this was not an obvious area of our expertise we recruited some help from Dr Dick Baur - a finance expert focused on markets, who has written extensively on the machinations of the gold and bitcoin markets. Whilst recognising… Read this post →
