Accountants and book keepers are not perfect. That may be a revelation to many, and unfortunately recent research at the University of NSW reveals that they have been known to commit fraud. Not all of them, of course, but a number of them A recent online UNSW BusinessThink article (read …
Slow Deciders Make Better Strategists
Sunday, August 14, 2016What contributes the most to making good competitive-strategy decisions – Education? Experience? Outsiders with new ideas? Mark Chussil, in a recent HBR Online article (read it here) shares some findings from data he has collected based on competitive-strategy decisions. Chussil has developed a matrix of decisions, highlighting the four styles …
Lessons from Starbucks
Sunday, November 8, 2015If you don’t know who Starbucks is then you really need to get out more, read more, or watch more TV. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse in the world (21,000 stores in 65 countries) and one of the fastest-growing companies in the USA. I am a firm believer in learning …
6 Workplace Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Sunday, October 11, 2015Just a few days ago Forbes online published a blog with this title by David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom (read it here) that really challenges conventional wisdom about the workplace. They look at six common beliefs and then dig into the research to find out whether it is actually true …
Fraud in Your Organisation
Sunday, October 11, 2015Late in 2014 BDO released their 2014 Fraud in Not-for-profits survey (read it here), which yielded some very interesting results. While one would like to imagine that the moltruistic nature of NFP’s means they are immune from fraud, this would be misguided, and in fact the evidence shows otherwise. Unfortunately …
The Five Levels of Delegation
Sunday, July 5, 2015I was interested to read Peter Economy’s thoughts on delegation in a recent online Inc. blog (read it here), as I had not really thought much about there being different levels of delegations. It is obvious now that it is through delegation that a leader manages to achieve the objectives …