By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW A client lamented that it felt like they were commando-rolling across the last weeks until Christmas. 2020 has thrown us enough curve balls to last a couple of decades. Our adversity, resilience, patience and humour have been tested and stretched at...
By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW There’s an old joke that ‘denial’ is the longest river in Africa. The journey down it often includes judgement, anger, bitterness and stubborn justification to reject the new situation. Trump’s refusal to concede post the US election provides the world a...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW President-elect Biden has emphasised the need to unite the United States. This is a good start: despite examples set by some nations’ premiers, good leadership does not include ‘divide and conquer’. Unity sounds great – and many countries need it...
By Juliet Hammond, Research and Data Analytics Lead Research is dominated by the pandemic and how businesses and leaders can survive and thrive in the new normal. There’s a clear shift to accepting we will have to work in unfamiliar contexts for some time and a recognition of the impact...
By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW Quoted by the Dalai Lama, yet recent research concludes that “the modern world has rarely been so isolated and restricted.” The juxtaposition of these views was broadcasted to the world yesterday when resilient Victorians celebrated, together, after 112 days isolated in COVID...
By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW The corporate tradition of giving expensive watches took an ugly time-out yesterday. Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate was asked to ‘stand aside’ by Prime Minister Scott Morrison pending an investigation into her office’s purchase of Cartier watches worth $3000 each, for four...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW Events have a knack of coinciding. It is 50 years since Milton Friedman wrote his influential article stating that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. It was a license for investors and Directors to think only...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW These are challenging times for teams. Personal contact is limited, remote working is hard for some and the intensity of back-to-back Zoom meetings can take its toll. Stress-related absence is on the rise. Having a friend at work can improve...
By Juliet Hammond, Research and Data Analytics Lead Some positive outcomes of the pandemic: research by BCG finds 75% workers believe their productivity has stayed the same or increased since moving to home working. McKinsey reports 10 years change in 6 months with dramatic growth in ecommerce and consumer’s openness...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW A Chinese proverb tells us “If you chase two rabbits, both will escape”. This is probably true for chasing small animals but does it hold for other pursuits? Should you limit yourself to one goal? The UK government has confused...