The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report Beyond the boom: Australia’s productivity imperative finds that “one-off” factors—including favourable terms of trade and an investment surge—have driven half of the country’s recent growth, obscuring the truth about its overall economic health. The magnitude of Australia’s resource
In recent months we’ve had an increasing number of requests from clients to facilitate strategic thinking sessions for them, most often with the senior leadership team, or to run some of our Critical & Creative Thinking workshops with managers as
Innovation is something that every organisation should be well on top of, and with the current debate on Australia's loss of productivity in recent years it is again time to think about what is actually happening. Business gurus tell us
Below is a message and invitation from MRS MANJU NAUTIYAL, Convener of the 7th International Innovation Day and Principal, of City Montessori School in Lucknow India that we are please to pass on to our contacts. It is an invitation to schools
An interesting element of testing people's memory is finding a culture free test. A couple of years ago the World Memory Sports Council (of which I am a member) decided to introduce a competition based on abstract images to replace
Information Overload: A never ending story of stress? “I’m running a pretty successful business, but the amount of stuff I have to deal with means I work 15 hours a day.” “I’m in the office early and busy all day
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glen Stevens has stirred the Productivity pot. Over the last few days The Financial Review has been reporting on Stevens comments, which included that when Government and Business Leaders hear about the need to increase productivity, what they
Tips & Tools to Manage Information Overload Information Overload, described as “an excess of information that results in an inability to concentrate on tasks and stay focused”, is a massive problem in the 21st Century, costing an estimated $900 Billion dollars each
How do we consume information? In a new TED Talk technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food. Fascinating for me was that he likened the challenge
Managing Information Overload is without doubt one of the most important skills an individual can develop today. With the massive increase in information availability, and with it bombarding us every day, we see people and organisations struggling to maintain their performance
