Last November, we published a Strictly Boardroom article on 'corporate culture' as part of a wider self-lead study of a subject which keeps popping up in our business and academic lives. As a starting point, before jumping into the serious reading, we reflected on some of the organisational cultures we'd come across in the minerals industry and academia: Egocentric -… Read this post →
Last October, we published a Strictly Boardroom article on the 'future of work' (currently a hot topic) in Australia. Australia is often referred to as the 'Lucky Country' after Donald Horne's 1964 book.* Many books and articles on Australia thus play on the theme of luck. One of these was "When the Luck Runs Out – The Future for Australians… Read this post →
Catching up on this year's Strictly Boardroom columnns on MiningNews.net, at the end of June we published one of my favourite pieces, entitled 'Towards minerals sector innovation: Clues from Shaw and Orwell". The article draws from my favourite author, George Orwell's 'Six Rules of Writing' and the 'Six Questions' he asks about every sentence he writes, and transfers them into… Read this post →
Earlier in the year, I was asked to present at the TARGET Conference (focused on exploration geoscience) in Perth, Australia on the subject of the 'business of greenfields exploration' - one of my favourite subjects. A brief abstract and the presentation can be found below, whilst the extended abstract can be found on Researchgate: https://www.slideshare.net/JohnSykes/business-of-greenfields-exploration-sykes-trench-apr-2017-centre-for-exploration-targeting "The minerals exploration sector is… Read this post →
I'm proud to be teaching on the Executive Education 'Strategic Planning and Practice' course run by the University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School and the Australian Institute of Management Western Australia (AIM WA). The course is headed up by Allan Trench and runs over two days on 11-12 July, at the AIM WA in Perth. It costs A$2,420 for… Read this post →
