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, 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 →
This week's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net with Allan Trench looks at why teams in the mining industry fail, and why even the best team's in the world, such as Lionel Messi's Barcelona also sometimes fail. The article is available to subscribers and entitled "Why teams fail - even great ones". Read this post →
As a fan of 90s sci-fi show the X-Files, I'm obviously excited about the new series due to air in the next few weeks. This therefore gave me the opportunity to mix my like of X-Files with another passion - minerals exploration. The result is a series of articles to go out in the Strictly Boardroom column of MiningNewsPremium.net over… Read this post →
