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Night-shift procedures and the logic of management

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Management, Media, Mining, Publications, Strategy

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Continuing our catch-up on last year's articles, we come to one of my favourite and most unusual Strictly Boardroom articles last year, inspired by my baby daughter: "Night-shift procedures and the logic of management". The article uses a simple set of instructions for how to change a nappy seen at a local daycare centre to demonstrate how difficult it actually…
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The renewable energy transition and battery and strategic metal markets

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Future, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Mining, PhD, Publications, Research, Strategy

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Welcome to 2018. Last year was a busy year and this year already looks like it will be another busy one. As such, I'd like to finish posting the various presentations, papers and articles from last year that are, as yet, unmentioned on this website, as soon as possible. In November last year, I was pleased to present the keynote…
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Re-thinking the mining industry

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Management, Strategy

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This week we've been re-thinking the mining industry, more specifically whether a change from linear modes of thinking to more systemic ways of thinking will help. In the Strictly Boardroom article on MiningNews.net we use the re-thinking of Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' into an inter-related set of needs as inspiration to try this style of thinking in the mining sector.…
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