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20 years of change in the public sector
In 1996, Nexus Management was established, providing consulting services to government, not-for-profit organisations and universities across Australia. It was the year John Howard was elected to replace Paul Keating as Prime Minister and Morris Iemma was NSW Premier. Since that time, we’ve had five Prime Ministers (six, if you count Rudd twice) and five NSW Premiers, though none who have served longer than Iemma’s three years and 33 days.
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Strategy and the right (part of the) brain
We explored the concept of strategy as an art rather than a science in another blog (see here) and this raises the question of left and right brain thinking in management. Management guru Henry Mintzberg looks at the role both hemispheres…
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Working smarter: the undisputed benefits of meditation
Meditation is often negatively associated with religion and eastern mysticism, conjuring up images of Buddhist monks and modern hippies with their legs tangled in complicated yoga poses. However, there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that the practice…
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Successful strategy: making the complex simple (but not simplistic)
Some time ago I had a public sector client whose new chief executive had initiated more than a dozen major organisational change initiatives. These included a major restructuring, an overhaul of the IT system, a new marketing strategy, a new…