This week's Strictly Boardroom column with Allan Trench on MiningNewsPremium.net outlines "A manifesto for the Australian gold industry" covering the improvements in shareholder returns, public disclosure, technological innovation, operation excellence, environmental management, project management, employee training and opportunity, community relations, social licence, and exploration that we believe the gold industry should try to implement whilst the times are good and… Read this post →
This week's "The Digger" features a positive review of our latest book "Strictly (Mining) Boardroom: Volume II - A Practitioner's Guide for Next Generation Directors". The book is available in paperback or e-book from Major Street Publishing or Amazon. Read this post →
Last week's Strictly Boardroom article with Allan Trench on MiningNewsPremium.net was on a topic we've covered before, and will likely cover again (potentially via a book) - why is gold so precious? Specifically why is it used as a store of value and monetary exchange? It turns out there are some good physical and economic reasons. From a physical perspective… Read this post →
Today's Strictly Boardroom article on MiningNewsPremium.net reviews the findings of one of last month's Centre for Exploration Targeting "Future of Minerals Exploration" scenarios workshops. The workshop discussed how technology and education could be used to enable or disable engagement with the mining sector, primarily through the reinforcement or unwinding of inequality in society. The two scenarios developed considered how things can… Read this post →
This week’s Strictly Boardroom article takes a counter-view as to why technological advancement may not take your job as soon as is predicted by considering the ways in which technology and bureaucracy interact. Technology is not the future, it is simply part of the future, and always has been. Those that work with technology thrive, those that work against it do… Read this post →