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Here’s the week that was, in terms of management articles posted on AIM’s Twitter account at least. For daily updates follow us at https://twitter.com/aimcomau.

As some of Australia’s most inspiring young managers demonstrated at the recent AIM30 Live events across Australia, Gen Y are having a huge impact on the management industry.

This is the topic up for discussion in the latest Management Insider Conversation podcast with Leon Gettler and Garry Barker.

In this installment, AIM30 Alumni Cate Bennett and Aaron LePoidevin join the conversation and reveal their own management experiences, insights and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

This is the killer scenario faced by many companies. They might have made significant improvements to many of their hiring processes.

I was at an industry conference recently, listening to a speaker regale the audience about how to manage Generation Y, as if something was wrong with them.

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

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!

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.

Business life is littered with stories of success and failure. Those who had the right plans and equipment – but who set sail at inopportune times.

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.