Australia might only have a decade left to wean itself off coal if the latest international efforts to decarbonise are anything to go by. See the opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald by Macquarie University’s Professor Martina Linnenluecke.
Read MoreMacquarie University Professor of Environmental Finance Martina Linnenluecke talks to ABC Radio PM’s Rachel Mealy and says the economics of the Adani coal plant don’t add up as Australia’s investment in coal will be written down in as little as 10 years.
Read MoreWhen is discrimination bad behaviour, and not unconscious bias? Has unconcious bias training gone a step too far? Macquarie University Professor Lucy Taksa says unconcious bias is a ‘get out of jail free card’ allowing people to deny they engage in illegal behaviour. See article in The Conversation.
Read MoreNew Monash University research reveals Chinese customers want reliability and guarantee of supply when choosing Australian brands. The ABC (Australian Brands in China) Index 2018, which examines the ‘health’ of Australian brands in China, reports Coles, Crown Group, Qantas and Weet-Bix as the top four of the ABC Index’s most reliable Australian brands category, while health and baby formula brands were among the lowest ranking in the list owing to supply glitches and their limited availability of product stock.
Read MoreSee KDK Bulletin 7 December 2017 for Paul Lyons on managing volatile team members, changes to competition rules from Minter Ellison, ACOSS on Electoral Funding Bill 2017, and a matter of opinion is by Hall & Wilcox on gender diversity in the insurance industry. This week’s expert is Mathew Herring from KPMG.
Read MoreSuperficially, the insurance industry is already gender diverse. In fact, figures from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) released in April 2016 suggest female participation in financial services and insurance at 55%, and male participation at 45% nationwide. So, can we say the job is done on gender diversity?
Read MoreAs a leader you need both mental toughness and emotional intelligence to handle challenging people situations that require calm, resolve and sensitivity. I observed one such situation earlier this year where one of my clients had to manage a situation with an experienced staff member, whose hugely volatile personality was threatening an otherwise stable and positive team. It was a potentially tricky situation because a poorly handled resolution would have had negative repercussions on both performance and culture.
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See KDK Bulletin 16 November 2017 for Bakjac Consulting who asks is your team mentally tough? FC Business Solutions on franchisors needing protection, and China and Aust cooperate on fintech says ASIC. A matter of fact is by Monash University and the Economic Society of Australia on unintended impacts of dual-nationality on estate planning. This week’s expert is Ben Allen a partner at Dentons.
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Are you currently able to look around at your team members and identify those who have higher levels of mental toughness and those who are more mentally sensitive?
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It’s tough to hold on to good employees, but it shouldn’t be. Most of the mistakes that companies make are easily avoided. When you do make mistakes, your best employees are the first to go, because they have the most options.
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In a period of marked political turbulence, global development and social justice organisations everywhere face uncertainty that threatens to destabilise funding and undermine many of the assumptions about public policy that have long guided the non-profit sector.
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See KDK Bulletin, 2 November 2017: Are you a dinosaur in the workplace? Small cap IPO market from HLB Mann Judd, Pitcher Partners on corporate tax changes, KPMG asks whether the National Energy Guarantee will deliver, and most ‘staph’ infections resistant to antibiotics occur in the community. This week’s expert is Elissa Romanin from Minter Ellison.
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The proportion of ‘staph’ infections resistant to antibiotics has increased in Australia since 2000 with most cases now occurring in the community rather than in hospitals, a new study led by ANU has found.
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First, let me start off by saying that your age (thankfully) has nothing to do with being a dinosaur in the workplace – it’s all about your attitude. Recently I attended a seminar about the future of online learning.
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See KDK Bulletin 26 October 2017: How to make innovation work, Dentons on new biodiversity regime, potential traps in new super rules, manufacturing’s new world order, and the price of Bitcoin is up – what does that mean for the future of currency? This week’s expert is Michael Langhammer from Pitcher Partners.
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