Australian Master of Business Administration programs are boosting efforts to bring women into classrooms – with the aim of getting them into boardrooms down the track. Just seven ASX top 200 chief executives are female, as are fewer than 10 per cent of directors in the top 500. The Dean of Macquarie Graduate School of Management, …
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Know your Stakeholders: Your stakeholders are those whose support is essential to your success. Do you understand their concerns and aspirations and what they expect in return for their support? No organisation or initiative can be led successfully without understanding how your stakeholders feel and what they expect. Walk and talk: Locked in a remote …
Part 1 Part 2 Establishing a successful network involves much more than just exchanging business cards or issuing invitations to connect. It requires taking explicit positions on: Why the network is being established; The profile of network members to be recruited; The minimum network size that can be sustained; and Anticipated network developments and how …
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Partnership Networks are independent businesses that have agreed to collaborate with a corporate sponsor in exchange for funding or other support. Examples include the Century 21 real estate network, businesses funded by and operating under the Virgin brand and Microsoft Competency Partners. Partnership networks in which the independent businesses are all start-up businesses and the …
In the past 40 years, business has become more complex and, as a consequence, more vulnerable to surprises. Shell Oil was one of the pioneers of pre-emptively managing surprises in the late 1960s. Shell’s anticipation of the 1970s Middle East energy crisis is often claimed to be the foundation for the global competitive edge they …
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After an extended period of growth through acquisition under the leadership of Jack Welsh, Jeffrey Immelt assumed responsibility for the leadership of GE in 2000 and one of the early changes he introduced was to re-establish the importance of customer and innovation culture as the key contributors to future growth strategy. An article in the Harvard …
Interesting developments at the intersection of neuroscience and leadership are pointing to evidence that much of what drives our behaviour is governed by primary instincts to minimise threats and maximise rewards, using the same brain networks that govern our quest to satisfy basic survival needs. In other words, considering the satisfaction of social needs in …
