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 →
For the first Strictly Boardroom article of this year we looked at organisational culture and minerals exploration - specifically the need for 'fringe culture'. Managing a fringe group within a standard, even good, corporate culture, say one dominated by integrity, respect, family, transparency, and values, can be difficult. That's not to say that some explorers do not value some of… Read this post →
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, triggered by attendance at a UWA Business School event on the subject, Allan and I published some musings on shared values - the alignment between personal and corporate values. We're not formal experts on this subject, but as people active in business, and a business school, and predominatly in an industry (mining) were all sorts of discussions about… Read this post →
