One of the more intriguing, and unusual, management gurus was the shaven-haired Stephen Covey, whose book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effectiv…
One of the more intriguing, and unusual, management gurus was the shaven-haired Stephen Covey, whose book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effectiv…
The Labor Party’s leadership crisis has done what many believed was impossible. It proves once and for all that there is actually a worse …
Slithershanks never forgot that he was one of the most talented people not to play for the Australian Test cricket team. He could have been …
The Australian economy suffers from low productivity and a high currency. It is worth revisiting the insights of the greatest of all the man…
A tongue-in-cheek guide to common business terminology by the man who brings you Slithershanks, the worst manager in the world. It is a well…
Slithershanks fidgeted with his core competency, his knowledge base looking thoroughly agitated. His Seven Habits (of highly successful idio…
Few thinkers have been so completely associated with one area of thinking as the Harvard University academic Michael Porter has been with st…
There has been a spate of resignations by the leaders of Australia’s big mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. This is only to be …
Slithershanks was livid. Beside himself. Quite irritated, really. This Labor government, quite frankly, is not worth the paper it is printed…
One of the strangest aspects of business life to emerge over the past two decades is the rise of management “gurus”. Whether it is Warre…
Slithershanks looked coldly out the window, his expression resembling a Charles Bronson glare, only without the intelligence. It was a fears…
Australia is suffering, we are told, from a strange malady known as Dutch disease. What do we know about this mysterious condition? A few th…