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Creating sustainable growth

B21Ceditor — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:45:53 +0000

How can we decouple growth from negative social and environmental impacts? Like all big questions, this is not an easy one to answer. Anthony Howard discusses the challenges business leaders face in our changing world.

A new global ethic

B21Ceditor — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:05:52 +0000

Business leaders who embrace societal issues that transcend themselves and their organization will drive change that echoes through history. No longer is it sufficient to work for purely institutional goals such as profit, market dominance and stakeholder return, says Confidere Group CEO Anthony Howard.

What makes collaboration work?

B21Ceditor — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:23:42 +0000

The reality of corporate collaboration is that almost every second alliance fails. Yet some organisations are spectacularly successful at developing alliance cultures. Dr Jochen Schweitzer explains how leadership and governance are key to successful collaboration.

Getting the most from next generation workers (part 2)

B21Ceditor — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:33:27 +0000

In part one, Kelly Bayer-Rosmarin from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia presented two strategies for getting the best from NextGen workers: treating everyone as individuals, and keeping the job interesting and fresh. Here she raises two equally important challenges: creating a fast track, and giving quality performance feedback.

Integrative Thinking

B21Ceditor — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:04:19 +0000

A common characteristic among many successful leaders, according to Jennifer Riel and her colleagues at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is the capacity to analyse two opposing concepts and quickly formulate a third and superior model.…

Top five risks for business in 2011

B21Ceditor — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:41:41 +0000

In today’s highly connected business environment, it is critical that leaders have the foresight and skills to chart a course for clear water. A seemingly benign occurrence in one corner of the world can quickly transform into a catastrophe with global ramifications. Anthony Howard, founder and CEO of the Confidere Group, forecasts the top five risks for business leaders in 2011.

Looking for weak signals

B21Ceditor — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:26:41 +0000

All successful business leaders pay close attention to strong signals. But truly visionary leaders scan for ‘weak signals’ that can indicate irreparable damage – or unseen opportunity. Anthony Howard explains.

Is your organisation what it says it is?

gabby-greyem — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:35:19 +0000

How does any organisation turn all the talk about values into something tangible and measurable by its various stakeholders? It’s a question the education sector has been grappling with and Darrall Thompson, Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning at the Schoolof Design has had particular focus on the issue for the past eight years.

Creative Innovation 2010, the wrap

B21Ceditor — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:55:45 +0000

Creativity and innovation are the new business black. We report from Tania de Jong's Creative Innovation 2010, a creative thinking extravaganza, launched with courage, executed with style.

UTSpeaks: Our very survival

B21Ceditor — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:42:29 +0000

On 3rd August, 2010, over three hundred and fifty people packed into the Great Hall at the University of Technology to hear from three of Australia’s leading sustainability thinkers, Professor Dexter Dunphy, Professor Thomas Clarke and Professor Jim Falk.…