Fiona Smith from BRW published an article today entitled Number Crunch: How Bosses try to turn you into code, including an interview with yours truly. You can read it here.
Even highly skilled and intelligent leaders aren’t good at detecting changes in their environment that might affect strategy. It's important to develop a framework to look for "unknown unknowns"
Thanks to good.is, here's an infographic about the value of an hour of work around the world.
The day after the Coalition released its' workplace relations policy, including to keep the Fair Work Act more or less in tact, Matt Cowgill from the ACTU has done some great analysis of opposition to, and results of, the Fair Work Act. Most fascinating for me was the graph of the "Days lost to industrial disputes" since 1987... it's a very different world we live in today, regardless of whether the coalition or Labor are in government.
There's plenty of advice out there about how to choose a career. Here's my 2 cents worth.
Courtesy of Lapham's Quarterly, here are some of the worst jobs in the world throughout history. Something to think about next time you're having a bad day at work.
Underemployment is often referred to as a type of "hidden unemployment" - workers who are being paid for one or more hours in a period are considered "employed", but the reality is that some of these workers would like to be working more hours. Doing some analysis on the Australian Bureau of Statistic's latest underemployment survey yielded an interesting insight... Women are hugely over-represented in underemployment statistics in almost every industry.
Strategic Workforce Planning is often defined as having the "Right People, in the Right Place, at the Right Time" - that's catchy, but is it right?
