People love to associate with successful innovators. Just look at the hype around agtech and fintech events. The intriguing thing is that they are people who took risks or stood up for transformative change for their organisation or industry. Sound cool? Actually, it takes a lot of courage. Firstly, doing anything new means you […]
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‘Gotcha’ – The Corrosive Critics of Change Leaders
Leaders always have enemies and critics – it comes with the turf. Leaders change the order of things and so, inevitably, there are winners and losers. Challenging of leadership decisions and directions is healthy and necessary. However, there are always people who choose the role of the persistent cynic, criticising leaders at every turn. […]
Power and influence of splinter groups
It’s easy to start an industry service organisation. In fact, a common pattern is for businesses to become dissatisfied with the performance of their industry organisation, so they exit and create a new one. A diversity of views is healthy, but sometimes the behaviours become toxic. The pattern has a splintering effect on an […]
Determine the costs of not changing
In a connected economy, business models don’t stay current for long. It holds true for firms and industry institutions. Yet there is often a deeply held mindset that industry institutions are somehow immune to the constant and disruptive changes that are shaping and re-shaping modern businesses. People ask ‘why do we need to fix […]
Industry organisations need to innovate too!
As primary industry businesses innovate rapidly and strive to be competitive on the global stage, somehow we have forgotten to demand that the associated industry services bodies are held to the same standard. Industry service bodies are the organisations that are doing what can’t easily be done by individual businesses working alone: such as industry […]
Not All Peak Bodies Are Equal
Peak bodies across all Australian industries range from the lacklustre to the outstanding when it comes to performance. Unfortunately, the implication is that most peak bodies fall into the middle – they are mediocre. It is the underperforming bodies that are the source of wariness by businesses when it comes to weighing up the value […]
