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Let Your Organisation’s Purpose be the Lighthouse by which You Navigate

I have been urging our clients to better define and communicate their organisational Purpose – their company’s reason for existence – their WHY. Many leaders who have watched the fabulous TED talk by Simon Sinek, titled, How Great Leaders Inspire Action or read his book, Start With Why, still don’t understand that an organisation’s Purpose […]

Integration – How to Bring Together Disparate Entities & Cultures

Integration; Merger; Take-over; Amalgamation – How to Bring Together Disparate Entities & Cultures. Most organisations take their foot off the peddle when they sign an agreement to merge or integrate two entities (offices, stores, companies, teams etc.) but the real work actually commences once the agreement is signed. Not appreciating this is one reason most […]

Customers Deserve Great Service

Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead said something like: It is not enough to be the best at what you do, you should try and be the only one who can do what you do! To strive for Garcia’s benchmark, we must work much harder to understand our customers and what they value. This requires […]

Staying Ahead of the Competition

How does an established manufacturer counteract the current challenges besetting the industrial products and systems sector? Better still, how have they managed to defy the industry trend of cost cutting, savage restructuring, lay-offs, dwindling sales and financial losses to stand tall as the best performing business, of its class, in Australia. The mining downturn, the […]

Associated Grain Customer Satisfaction Report 2017 (Growers)

During 2017, Associated Grain announced the sale of the business to Agrocorp International. Agrocorp International is a global agri-commodity trading business, founded in Singapore in 1990 and with trading revenues upwards of 3 billion USD. We are so pleased that Todd Jorgensen is staying on as the innovative and driven CEO. Todd and Associated Grain […]

People At Their Best – Case Studies Summary – 2017

We are pleased to share 3 new case study summaries. This year we have included direct client findings on the impact and return on the work we have done together. We have purposely chosen 3 engagements only, as they represent the depth of the work we undertake but also the breadth of clients we work […]

Winter 2017 Newsletter & New Office

Dear Friends and Colleagues, On the 1st of June we opened our new office in Phillip Street Parramatta. It is extraordinary to look out at the Parramatta skyline and know that there are more cranes than anywhere else in the country. The region is booming and we are excited to be part of it. While […]

Cycles Of Torture — Tour de France

I felt like I was flying — like a bird, diving and rolling, weightless and untethered. Everything looked so blue, so sharp. I felt incredibly alive. Into hairpin bends my body surged forward dangerously close to the edge, disregarding the terrifying 1,000-metre cliff drops. The mountains engulfed me. Drenched in sweat, I cycled higher and […]

Design like an Italian & build like a German

Design like an Italian, build like a German and execute like the Chinese. It is a crude generalisation I know, but I have been thinking that we need a lens through which we can benchmark our own performance. Maybe it is simpler to say that everything we do should be beautiful and done with great […]

Authoritarianism and Donald Trump

I read a great piece recently titled, The Rise of American Authoritarianism, which seeks to explain the ascent of Donald Trump – https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism What made the article universal was that it spoke of latent conservatism and fear, where people see change as a threat and would rather life, not only stay the same, but return […]