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Guest post By Rob Davidson

Forty per cent of companies are dying, they just don’t know it.

At least this is what Cisco’s outgoing CEO John Chambers claimed in his recent keynote speech and the reason, well no surprises there, digital technology.

Add to this the recently released report by the Committee for Economic Development Association (CEDA), which said 40 per cent of jobs in Australia are at serious risk of disappearing in the next decade and a concerning picture emerges.

I often get asked what industry I work in.  My response is always Sports Management. The counter question the vast majority of the time is You manage athletes?

Guest post by AIM Senior Research Fellow, Dr Samantha Johnson

‘A leader has to appear consistent.  That doesn’t mean he has to be consistent.’ The complexity of leadership according to wise, 1970s British PM, Jim Callaghan. 

Guest post by AIM Education & Training CEO, Daniel Musson

Commentary around the future of the Australian economy often outlines core trends that are positioned as a threat: digital disruption, globalisation, and demographic change.

But in themselves, these trends are neutral. They are neither positive nor negative. It’s our perspective and how we choose to respond that creates a sinking feeling and a defensive response. The alternative response is to get very focused, very determined and work out what we do well and how to win.

Albert Einstein famously said “Once you stop learning, you start dying”. Einstein scarcely took time to comb his hair.

Crisis management is not the recommended way to run a business, although I have come across those where it is the natural order of the day.

Guest post by David Reynolds I Davidson Executive

As the chairman or owner of an organisation, what would you do if your CEO resigned today, had a heart attack or could no longer perform the role?

Would you have a CEO in waiting, already trained and developed to take over the role?

Alarmingly, a recent survey by the National Association of Corporate Directors found two thirds of US public and private companies still admit they have no formal succession plan.

Guest post by AIM CEO, Dan Musson

As an 18 year old school leaver, completing an undergraduate degree in Marketing, I found my rhythm early and it’s here I suppose I fostered two realities.

Human-centred leaders put people before profit, doing what is right before results, and focus on creating an environment where people can grow.

Guest post by Saul Eslake

This article originally appeared in AIM for Leadership and Management Excellence, AIM's bi-monthly magazine for AIM Members.

Between 2002 and 2011 Australia’s real per capita gross national income – a measure (albeit an imperfect one) of the average Australian’s material standard of living – rose at an average annual rate of 2.9 per cent – a pace well above that of the previous four decades.