Business and College collaboration is a wonderful way to enhance student learning. A recent excursion organised by the Avondale Business School to Sydney saw students visit 3 business to get insights into risk management, marketing, human resources and accounting. The first business to open its doors was the Mascot Air …
The CEOs Role in Leading Transformation
Sunday, December 18, 2016Previous ABS blogs have highlighted the processes involved in organisational transformations and change management. However, until recently, none of the research or articles looked in detail at the role the CEO of an organisation should play in this process. The management consulting and research company McKinsey&Co have published just such …
Are You A Toxic Leader?
Sunday, December 4, 2016That’s a tough question to answer for many of us. We would like to believe that we have no faults, and if only everybody did what they were told, before I tell them, then the business will go alright. Unfortunately, sometimes we are the problem, and for leaders it may …
Great Performers Make Their Personal Lives a Priority
Sunday, November 20, 2016The great dilemma for most people striving for success is to balance their personal lives with their careers, so that neither suffers. How difficult that can be is represented by numerous broken relationships and unrealised dreams. In a very recent post on the Harvard Business Review site, Stew Friedman explores …
The Myth of Open Office Spaces
Sunday, October 9, 2016The idea of open office spaces comes and goes, and has recently been revived by a new group of employers looking to “break down barriers” and create “collaborative” and “team-oriented” work spaces. However, recent research questions this premise and instead suggests that open office spaces cause more problems. Rachel Morrison …
Not-for-profit Workers Are Happier Workers
Sunday, July 31, 2016Money doesn’t always buy happiness! Reviewing a recent article by Martin Binder in the Journal of Economic Psychology (find it here), Christian Jarrett writes in the BPS Research Digest (read it here) that Binder’s study looked at British people working in both commercial and not-for-profit organisations. One of the surprising …