Why you should stand up for your staff (and buy a Porsche 918 Spyder)
In an urge to appease difficult clients, many bosses are willing to throw staff under a bus. But the old cliché ‘the customer is always right’ is wrong.
How open-plan offices kill collaboration and creativity
Open plan is sold as a solution that will transform the way people communicate and collaborate, when in fact, it does the very opposite.
Webcams and monitored bathroom breaks: Why employee monitoring is counter-productive
Surveillance and stalking just make good people run away, leaving you with only desperate staff who can’t get a job elsewhere.
Porque no los dos? You can treat your employees fairly and make a profit
No matter what size the organisation is, the cost of people must be front and centre in any discussion about profitability.
Bleeding-edge advice: To communicate effectively you’ve got to ditch the jargon
Employees and customers already feel isolated when they do not readily understand our technology, let alone the words and phrases that come along with it.
Why living the good life is very bad for business
If Edison had a low-priced team of candle trimmers and oil-lamp refillers, he wouldn’t have bothered inventing the light globe.
The email killer? Facebook’s new Workplace platform brings new opportunities for startups and SMEs
Facebook Workplace is exactly like Facebook, but for a workplace, and it's being adopted across Australia by small and big business alike.
Can you imagine a stress-free work day? Effortless influence in three simple steps
By skilling yourself in behavioural influence you gain efficiencies every day, in every interaction, turning your traffic lights green.
“A rising tide lifts all boats”: Three principles for fostering healthy, powerful business partnerships between women
There’s a place for healthy competition in business, but it’s time for women to build a culture of collaboration over cattiness.
To change the culture you’ve got to change the people
If you want to shift a culture, you can either help your employees change the way they think, or fire everyone and hire different people.
Times of global crisis: Navigating ethics, power and prosperity as a business
There is no shame in running a prosperous business — even in times of crisis.
How routines at macro, meso and micro levels stifle innovation
An essential factor in implementing innovations is diagnosing sources of resistance — one major source of resistance are the routines in all organisations.