For the final Strictly Boardroom article of 2017 we pondered whether taking on tasks classified as 'labours of love' (which describes much of our work) is worth it? We drew some inspiration from psychologist Daniel Kahneman, management theorist Elliot Jaques, philosopher Thomas Kuhn, and economists Tim Harford and John Kay. Our thoughts and conclusions are still available to MiningNews.net subscribers… Read this post →
Last November, to assist with the MBA course at UWA we were teaching on 'Strategic Analysis and Consulting' we prepared an A to Z of 'must-know' subjects in the area of strategy and management in the minerals sector. How many do you know? Analysis, Alliances and Adhocracy; Behavioural economics, Biases and heuristics, the Boston Box (or the growth-share matrix), Big… 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 →
The F-word is focus. Rounding up the last of the Strictly Boardroom articles on MiningNews.net published in May we come to a plea for focus in mining industry management advisory. I quick browse of the consulting and advisory literature very quickly accumulates into a list of incoherent, jargon-inflected pieces of advice. Our view is to keep it simple. Focus on… Read this post →
April was a busy month with thesis writing, teaching courses and organising lecture competitions, nonetheless, I still managed to get a few publications out, which are worth catching up on. On the 10th April, Allan Trench and I published a piece in the Strictly Boardroom column entitled "FBT - An acronym for next generation mining" looking at some of the… Read this post →
