A diversity of views is healthy, especially when you’re searching for ideas and solutions in a disruptive and fast-changing business environment. However, the consequences can be serious for businesses when industries have multiple strident and competing public voices on important issues. Many public voices generate noise and send conflicting messages that can be costly. […]
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Priorities – what will you stop doing?
Leaders, firms and industry service organisations are constantly besieged with competing and conflicting priorities from different parties wanting their priority placed at the top. What embattled leaders see less of are useful insights on how to ‘stop’ doing what’s not so important today. The challenges of priority-setting are well described, with lots of books […]
No room for fence sitters in modern rural advocacy
Many farmers in Australia and other developed economies have become acutely aware of how interest groups such as the animal rights movement are succeeding in disrupting the conventional advocacy model for agriculture. These groups have moved from the margins into a position of real influence, where they are having a disproportionate impact on public policy […]
