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Don’t miss out on last week’s best reads from around the management world, gathered from AIM’s Twitter at https://twitter.com/aimcomau.
The Two Questions Every Manager Must Ask (via @HarvardBiz) http://bit.ly/1nj2PJM
Email, one of the world’s greatest communication tools, has morphed from servant to tyrant. By Ainsleigh Sheridan
Globally, 100 billion business emails are transacted daily. It is predicted this will rise to 132 billion by 2017. You’ve got mail – and potentially a serious problem.
That’s certainly how John Borghetti sees it. The Virgin CEO says he gets up to 500 emails a day and still has hundreds to read on a Sunday – at 3am!
Guest blog by Richard Carter
Resilience as a key leadership characteristic is fast becoming a commodity all Australian leaders need.
The unprecedented levels of disruption occurring across most industries means that many leaders are now facing increasing adversity from changes in market dynamics, technological innovation and new competitors. Clearly, being a leader in today’s economy is not for the faint-hearted.
By Dr Malcolm Johnson FAIM
If stereotypical behaviour towards the different generations was a virus, we’d be in the middle of a pandemic.
Unfortunately, while the attraction of generation stereotypes is to reduce the complexity of human interactions to more simple terms, this is causing a range of problems in business, as AIM’s recent research on the management reality of generational thinking has shown.
