10 PowerPoint presentation turnoffs (journal article)
by Leslie Allan
from Training and Development in Australia, December 2008, pp. 31-32
Here are my ten most annoying turnoffs that we should all avoid in our presentations and waht we can do to lift our performance.
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Feeling lucky: what drives economic optimism? (journal article)
by Gideon Haigh
from The Monthly, Dec 2008 - Jan 2009, pp. 42 - 49
...There is a way of scrutinising the economic tribulations of the past year, one in which hope - security in the present and the belief in a better tomorrow - is actually a dimension of the problem, rather than a key to its solution. What might be changing is the view of homo economicus as a rational, profit-maximising actor, replaced by the vision of a guileless optimist oblivious to his or her ignorance.
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Ten new gurus you should know (journal article)
By: Reingold, Jennifer; Tkaczyk, Christopher.
From: Fortune, 11/24/2008, Vol. 158 No. 10, pp. 151-158,
This article lists a number of business scholars who many businesspeople think should be known for their expertise in leadership. The work of innovative businesspeople including computer technology developer B. J. Fogg, business professor Rakesh Khurana from Harvard Business School, and Valerie Casey from the design company IDEO is described.;
Coordination and transformation in business processes: towards an integrated view (journal article)
By Göran Goldkuhl and Mikael Lind
from Business Process Management Journal Vol 14 Iss 6 2008, pp. 761-777
"The purpose of this paper is to contrast two views, a transformative and a coordinative view, on business process management (BPM) in order to propose an integrated view. "
Regional Unemployment Disparities: An Evaluation of Policy Measures (journal article)
By N Groenewold and A J Hagger
from Australian Economic Papers Vol 47 Iss 4 2008, pp. 355- 375
"This paper analyses the efficacy of regional and federal government policies in reducing inter-regional unemployment disparities. We use as our framework a two-region general equilibrium model with a given freely-mobile supply of labour. We assume inter-regional migration to occur in response to inter-regional utility differentials. Each region has households, firms and a regional government. In addition to regional governments, there is a federal government. The firms in a region use a single factor, labour, to produce a single good which we assume to be different to that produced in the other region. It is supplied to households and to the regional government in the form of payroll taxes. Households consume some, trade some with households in the other region and give some up to the federal government as income tax. Firms and households bargain over wages and firms then choose employment to maximise profits. The resulting equilibrium will generally not be a full-employment one.
We simulate a linearised numerical version of the model. We examine seven alternative policies, six carried out by a regional government and one by the federal government. In the first group there are traditional tax/expenditure polices as well as policies which might be seen as attacking the natural rate of unemployment: changes in unemployment benefits, changes in union power, changes in the labour force and changes in labour productivity. The federal government policy is a regionally-differentiated fiscal policy.
Contrary to expectations, many policies which have traditionally been recommended to alleviate unemployment are found, in fact, to exacerbate the unemployment problem."
An Assessment of the House of Lords Report on the Economic Impact of Immigration to the United Kingdom (journal article)
By Chris F Wright
from People and Place Vol 16 No 3 2008, pp. 35 - 46
"Since the mid 1990's economic immigration policy in the United Kingdom has been transformed from being one of the most restrictive in Europe to being among the most open-ended. This shift has coincided with increasing public dissatisfaction with immigration policy. In April 2008 the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs published a report on immigration's economic effects. It found - contrary to the assertions of the Labour Government - that recent immigration flows have not produced significant economic benefits. Despite the unequivocal and rather damning conclusions of the report, it is unlikely to produce any major shift in government policy."
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Better, Faster Decisions (journal article)
By Ken Hudson
from Management Today Nov/Dec 2008, pp. 26 - 28
"The ideal of lengthy, considered and purely rational decision making is not only unattainable but unworkable, says Dr Ken Hudson. You've got to keep the emotion in."
Reality Bites (journal article)
By Bina Brown
from Management Today Nov Dec 2008, pp. 16 - 21
"If a booming economy presented myriad challenges for Australia's managers, then the subsequent global economic turmoil is hardly going to be the time to look for a reprieve. Looking ahead to the top challenges that managers can expect to face in 2009 - whether it be the state of the economy, the importance of strong leadership or the ongoing skills shortage - the issues are intertwined, making it virtually impossible to consider one without the other. With that in mind and in no particular order, Management Today takes a look at the top 10 issues to watch out for next year, what you can expect and what you can do to be ready."
The real work of the leader: a focus on the human side of the equation (journal article)
By Joseph P. Cangemi et al
from Journal of Management Development Vol 27 Iss 10 2008, pp. 1026-1036
"No one would argue that leaders have a myriad of significant responsibilities. Using a premise the authors support – leadership is a people business – they aim to utilize their more than 100 years combined leadership to answer the question: what, then, is the real work of the leader? Narrative based on over 100 years of leadership and consultation on leadership with a wide variety of organizations. The result is the eight roles of the leader, which are as follows: collaborative developer of mission, vision, and organizational core values; creator of a humanistic work environment; developer of people, builder of capabilities; Initiator of organization-wide communications; role model of emotional intelligence; utilizer of strategic data; consensus seeker – risk taker; change agent. "
Innovation in research and development: tool of strategic growth (journal article)
By Yair Holtzman
from Journal of Management Development Vol 27 Iss 10 2008, pp. 1037-1052
"To describe research and development (R&D) as a tool of strategic growth. The world's top performing companies share a common characteristic: their superior ability to develop and introduce new products faster and cheaper than their competitors. As a matter of fact, effective product innovation is the key to growth, even survival, for almost any business. The author discusses how innovation in R&D could serve as a differentiating strategic business tool. The paper is based upon the authors 15 years of experience in the area of R&D and new product development. "
Trade opportunities arising out of the global financial crisis (speech)
by Bernard Salt
from Brisbane Business News November 2008 (1p.)
"Coming is the Asian Arc of cities that will act as a fulcrum between the West and its lifestyle cities (such as are on offer in Australia) and the emerging consumer markets of China and India. For this reason the outlook for Australia and Queensland is especially exciting."
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Queensland sugar: where to from here (journal article)
by John Hine
from Food and Drink Business, November 2008
"The conclusion about the Queensland sugar industry is that there has been much change over the last few years, but with much more change likely in terms of commercial structures, possible new players, new technologies and new products over the next 5-10 years. Might there be a major new multinational investor in Far North Queensland to make industrial chemicals from sugar cane? Mozambique has a 30,000 hectare sugar cane project to make ethanol, can't we do the same?"
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Electronic attacks against government and business soaring (journal article)
by Ernie Davitt
from Australian Security Magazine, Nov-December 2008
With an upsurge in global cyber-attacks, including the targeting of Australian government agencies as well as business and the cost of online crime topping $3 trillion, the Australian Government has moved steadily to strengthen national e-security.
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