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UK researchers at the University of Warwick have found that happier people are about 12% more productive. When you consider the impact of this on workplace performance, it’s easy to see the importance of maintaining an engaged, healthy and happy workplace culture.
Unfortunately, busy workplaces and high-pressure management roles can naturally lead to stress and worry, and according to renowned psychology academic and best-selling author, Dr Tim Sharp, worry is one of the more common enemies of happiness.
Don’t miss out on last week’s best reads from around the management world, gathered from AIM’s Twitter at https://twitter.com/aimcomau.
The Two Questions Every Manager Must Ask (via @HarvardBiz) http://bit.ly/1nj2PJM
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Email, one of the world’s greatest communication tools, has morphed from servant to tyrant. By Ainsleigh Sheridan
Globally, 100 billion business emails are transacted daily. It is predicted this will rise to 132 billion by 2017. You’ve got mail – and potentially a serious problem.
That’s certainly how John Borghetti sees it. The Virgin CEO says he gets up to 500 emails a day and still has hundreds to read on a Sunday – at 3am!
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Guest post by Alexander Gosling
If Australia is to prove to the world that it really is the ‘clever country’, then it must reverse the decline of the nation’s manufacturing industry.
What’s required is that local manufacturers need to move much faster to embrace the realities of the “third industrial revolution”. By that I mean, the manufacturing technologies that allow agile and flexible operations of which additive manufacturing is a prime example.
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Australian demographer Bernard Salt has carved out a unique niche as the go-to man when managers or the media have questions about the forces shaping the nation, writes Leon Gettler
What’s keeping managers up at night? Australia’s most celebrated demographer Bernard Salt says it’s a completely different proposition from 10 years ago.
“The thing that used to keep CEOs awake at night were operational matters, like how do I reduce my staff turnover,” Salt says.
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Need something to read over your morning cup of coffee? Start with these management and leadership articles, gathered from AIM’s Twitter at http://twitter.com/aimcomau.
Going Flat: The Re-imagined Organization (via @mgissues) http://bit.ly/1qsA8ce4
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Guest blog by Richard Carter
Resilience as a key leadership characteristic is fast becoming a commodity all Australian leaders need.
The unprecedented levels of disruption occurring across most industries means that many leaders are now facing increasing adversity from changes in market dynamics, technological innovation and new competitors. Clearly, being a leader in today’s economy is not for the faint-hearted.
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By Dr Malcolm Johnson FAIM
If stereotypical behaviour towards the different generations was a virus, we’d be in the middle of a pandemic.
Unfortunately, while the attraction of generation stereotypes is to reduce the complexity of human interactions to more simple terms, this is causing a range of problems in business, as AIM’s recent research on the management reality of generational thinking has shown.
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Guest post by Fiona Triaca and Erica Davis, Naked Ambition
Ever wondered what can get you moving from being the assistant to having a team of assistants?
It’s simple really.
It’s curiosity.
It may have killed the cat, but it will get you everywhere in the business world.