In 5 exclusive podcasts, Australia’s top consultants & management academics- Francoise Michel, Andrew Price, Ian Douglas, Natalia Nikolova, & Doug Davis -tell us how to achieve excellence as a management consultant.

The key to successful sales is knowing what your client wants. Simon Harrop explains that the better prepared you are, the more likely a new customer will open up to you.

Projects are not ‘business as usual’, so it makes sense to take a different approach to project management. Associate Professor Shankar Sankaran and Dr Chris Stevens explain how project leaders can benefit from soft systems thinking.

The most innovative and creative firms understand that creativity is not a luxury to be assigned just to those with a ‘creative licence’, says John Bessant, Director of Research and Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Exeter.

To retain its position as the world’s most sought-after graduate degree–and truly deserve this distinction–the MBA needs to work along three vectors, thinks Dean Roger Martin, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

If a country’s standard of living depends on its capacity to make, grow or dig things out of the ground, how does Australia’s manufacturing sector rate, asks Senator Kim Carr.