At Maximus, we love TED Talks; they spark your thinking around a variety of subjects from sales training and leadership development, to neurology and organisational psychology. Here are our top 10 videos we use to stimulate our thinking and inspire.
Apr 29, 2013 10:45:00 PM
At Maximus, we love TED Talks; they spark your thinking around a variety of subjects from sales training and leadership development, to neurology and organisational psychology. Here are our top 10 videos we use to stimulate our thinking and inspire.
Topics: General Business
Apr 26, 2013 7:54:00 PM
Spotlight on Scott Stacey, Account Manager
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over" - Richard Branson
With a business career spanning more than 30 years, Scott Stacey knows business. “I began my career as a Chartered Accountant, working in senior finance roles in Australia and then the UK; so I understand everything in business has to have a financial impact”.
This commercial acumen is something he has lived by throughout his impressive career. With 15 years experience in global HR consulting firms, Scott decided to take the next step in his career by starting up a boutique HR consulting firm. Despite only being in the start-up phase, Scott grew the firm’s income from nil to $2.4M in just two years.
Topics: General Business, Business Coach, Business Consultant, Maximus People and Authors
Apr 20, 2013 1:37:00 AM
Full article written by Nina Hendy, Published in Smart Company and Startup Smart
It’s no fluke that entrepreneurs are outgoing, gregarious and confident people with high levels of self-discipline.
People with such personality traits are often drawn to entrepreneurship, driven by the challenges that running your own business presents.
So, could an assessment of your personality traits pre-determine whether or not you’ve got what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur? Perhaps so, it seems.
Topics: Entrepreneur, Personality Profiling, Organisational Development, General Business, Leadership, Smart Company, Maximus People and Authors
Apr 17, 2013 6:34:00 PM
“The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.” – Orison Swett Marden
In part one; we outlined six questions to audit sustainable competitive advantage. This week, we shift our focus to customer centricity. Put simply, customer centricity is all about understanding your brand value and delivering it consistently to your customers and clients.
Topics: Competitive Advantage, Resources, Strategy, General Business, Customer Centricity, How To, Maximus People and Authors
Apr 10, 2013 10:04:00 PM
I was at a party in Greenwich Village in New York City. It was crowded, with about twice as many people as the space comfortably fit. There was a dog in the mix too. But it was a casual event and we all spent a lot of time in the kitchen, cooking and cleaning.
I was at the sink washing dishes when I heard the dog yelp behind me. I turned just in time to see a woman curse at the dog as it dashed out of the kitchen. She had obviously just stepped on his foot or tail.
"Watch out!" she shouted after the dog, then saw me looking at her and added, "He's always in the way."
Really? You step on a dog and then you blame the dog? Who does that?
Actually, a lot of us do.
Topics: General Business, Leadership, Peter Bregman, Harvard
Mar 29, 2013 1:32:00 AM
“An organisation’s ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch
Achieving competitive advantage is vital to surviving in an increasingly complex business environment. To achieve this, you need deep and meaningful insights into your organisation, your competitors, your industry and your market. It’s not about customer surveys and short range insights; you need to be creative with different sources of information. Journey maps, global mega trends, experience mapping, and customer and competitor observation research and analytics, are all key to achieving this knowledge.
Below we outline a model to audit your strategy, stimulate your thinking and refocus your goals for the year ahead.
Topics: Competitive Advantage, Resources, Strategy, General Business, How To
Mar 15, 2013 10:20:00 PM
As published in Australian Business Solutions
“Figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics earlier this year from the Business Characteristics Survey show that innovation is slowing down. The proportion of businesses actively innovating fell nearly 5 per cent, to 39 per cent of businesses. Meanwhile, business sentiment as to how innovative we are is poor, with the GE Innovation Barometer earlier this year showing that when ranked by business sentiment as to how innovative we are, Australia ranks 16th out of 30 countries.” - Kate Mills, BRW, 06 Dec 2012
Maximus Managing Director, Vanessa Gavan responds:
As a Managing Director, I find these stats really concerning. Not only will this drop in innovation impact on organisational performance in the medium-term, it will have flow on consequences surrounding employee morale and engagement. People want to work for companies that are constantly evolving. Top talent want to participate in ideation, they covet accelerated learning and they need to be fast-tracked. There has to be a level of innovation, performance and growth for this to occur. Companies that fail to think creatively will find themselves at the back of the pack in the race for top talent.
Topics: General Business, Innovation, entrepreneurship, Leadership, Maximus People and Authors
Mar 14, 2013 12:56:00 AM
Topics: General Business
Mar 6, 2013 1:36:00 AM
Topics: General Business
Feb 26, 2013 4:09:00 AM
As published in My Career, Sydney Morning Herald, 23rd-24th February, 2013
Freediving holds vital business lessons, writes Sue Green
Topics: General Business
