Ex bankers, high profile politicians and the business elite are eyeing off Australia’s social care sector as a soft landing place for their last pre-retirement job.

I’ve had a chat to a few new entrants and they all say one thing “I want to give back”. I don’t buy it. “...

Just when you thought you had it all under control, something changes.

Most organisations are aware of the ‘’hyper-connected consumer’’ … we have been told that people are now connected 24 hours a day; if they don’t like something there is a website they can criticise y...

With so much talk about change, NDIS, person-centred planning, strategy, planning and the like, one of the core concepts that has been overlooked is that of risk. By risk, we are not talking about operational risk, but strategic risk and very specifically, risk appetit...

The McKinsey Global Institute released an excellent report in 2012 entitled, The Social Economy. Unlocking Value and Productivity through Social Technologies which whilst some three years old, make compelling reading. The report found (amongst other things) that:

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We hear a lot about how managers and leaders in the sector need to be innovative, yet many have done this all their lives. So, why is it that we often don’t acknowledge innovation in the workplace? There are reasons for this but the most common one is that for innovati...