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Special
Our annual review of the big ideas in business and society takes
a look at some of the most influential thinkers of our time. Plus an A to Z
list of cutting-edge concepts. By Mike Hanley and Brad Hatch.
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Business philosopher Paul Hawken envisages
a new age for corporations - one that sees the rise of customers and NGOs as
a powerful force in business. He speaks to Paddy Manning.
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the full article and read the transcript of the interview here.
Does business know-how and entrepreneurial can-do mean much
in a third-world village? Eight British self-made millionaires certainly think
it does. But if you watch the TV documentary Millionaires' Mission you will
see how useless the modern business mind seems in a remote Ugandan farming community.
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From the laboratory to the boardroom and the classroom, the brain is on everyone's mind.
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With trust in short supply, the accountability mechanisms of financial regulation need rethinking.
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When it comes to work, what's age got to do with it? Can we
herald the arrival of the "ageless worker"? I'm not talking about sneaking in
a few Botox injections before a job interview, but about the fact that workers
of all ages increasingly see age as irrelevant to promotion and career advancement.
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The following bonus big ideas essays are not included in the print edition
of June Boss:
Tapping tomorrow isn’t easy. The struggle to map trends
and keep pace with change has upended a number of business models. Take photography,
for example. In the past 10 years digital cameras have displaced 35mm cameras.
To that extent Nikon (which started life as a paper mill) recently announced
that it won’t make 35mm cameras any more, and Konica Minolta – the
world’s third-largest maker of film – has pulled out of wet film
manufacturing because the market has dried up. Times are a changing and the
face of business shows it.
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Some say gender simply doesn’t matter in the modern workplace,
that the old debates about sexism, stereotypes and glass ceilings
are just that: out of date and irrelevant. Get over it, get on with
the job and develop some gender blindness; we’re in the age
of the androgynous worker – or so the thinking goes..
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Features
Alesco's CEO, Justin Ryan tells Michael
Smith how a workplace fatality brought him back to Earth.
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Harvard Business Review
Lust for the deal blinds many to the real cost of beating the competition.
Dawn Casey is bringing a fresh outlook to Sydney's
Powerhouse Museum. By Lyndall Crisp.
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Lucinda Schmidt finds out how companies deal with the
pressure to cook up new products. Read
the full article
Allan Moss exits MacBank. By Karen Maley
and Narelle Hooper.
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Regulars
Why it's better to be a starfish than a spider, and the nine hidden skills needed in a services role.
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BOSS CODE
In a new monthly guide to dressing, Natasha Silva-Jelly
finds the devil is in the detail.
The co-founders of Cosmos magazine speak to Deirdre Livolsi
about living and working together.
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Twenty-four seven
WHAT IM READING
Oroton Group director Sam Weiss.
BOOKS
Ethics for the Real World; plus Groundswell.
JOURNALS
Rae Cooper on the latest management journals.
WHAT IM WORKING ON
MGSM management professor Gayle Avery.
BOSS COACH
How to fire people, by Rose-Anne Manns.
TRAVEL
Kendall Hill plans the perfect trip using Web 3.0.
Hilary Milne tells Catherine Fox
about risk-taking.
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