Continuing our catch up on last year's Strictly Boardroom articles: In August we published a pair of articles on job interviews, specifically for management consultancy, using the 'structured problem solving' technique commonly employed to test candidates. There's a 'what not to do' and a 'what to do' article. Hopefully these will be useful if you're going through the interview process… 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 →
September has been a busy month, however, I now have some time to update you on some of the Strictly Boardroom articles that have been published on MiningNewsPremium.net this month, by Allan Trench and myself. The first article that came out this month (on the 5th) was entitled "What are your capabilities worth?" and discussed the scalability of corporate capabilities… Read this post →
Earlier in the year I was privileged to be asked by the University of Western Australia Business School to present to a group of visiting MBA students from the Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia. The talk had similar content to one given earlier in the year to students from the University of Alberta, however, with a bit more of… Read this post →
