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Did you know that some of the greatest Fortune 500 companies started in a financial downturn?

According to inspirational Young Australian of the Year recipient and CEO of Empowering Enterprises, Sam Cawthorn, this is no anomaly. In fact, some of the greatest crises throughout history have sparked tremendous world change that has led to positive growth and transformation.

Time to take a break and catch up on a week of management reading. Enjoy this selection of quicklink articles from AIM’s Twitter http://twitter.com/aimcom.au. 

An Alternative to Holocracy Unlocking Ideas for the Best Results (viahttp://twitter.com/fastcompany) http://bit.ly/1m0qOtN

Looking for a little light reading? Here’s a selection of management and leadership articles from last week. For daily updates, follow us on Twitter @aimcomau.

6 Steps for Leading Change (via http://twitter.com/SBEducation) http://bit.ly/OlKQ6Q

Guest post by George Nelson

Is your competitor about to steal your audience?

Surviving and thriving in 2014 is about designing prospective strategy and exploiting business opportunity.

Strategy, which drives all organisations, has for over a century rested on a tried and tested approach that has generated the same results. It is the organisations that are bold and do things differently that benefit from the norm of complacent strategic practice.

AIM in Victoria played host to the first Management Today Roundtable last month, discussing productivity and innovation with Federal Minister for Small Business Bruce Billson and executives and management experts. By Tom Skotnicki

Australia’s manufacturing industry is under stress following the decision to cease local vehicle production. The mainstay of industry policy for the past 60 years is about to disappear.

Dealing with an employee’s personal problems is a difficult yet crucial part of managing a team, writes Leon Gettler

Dealing with life’s ups and downs is now the big challenge for managers. A worker can be unfocused at work because they are going through a messy divorce, or their child has a learning disability. Maybe their eldest has a drug problem. Perhaps they are not putting in because they have a chronic illness and are in constant pain. Maybe they are suffering from depression. Or alcoholism.

Gabby Leibovich, co-founder and director of Australia’s biggest online shopping business Catch of the Day, has grown from a minnow to Jaws, snatching a sale every two seconds. ByLeon Gettler

Unlike many business owners and managers, Gabby Leibovich embraces change. He relishes it.

Life is about change, he says. It brings new opportunities. Certainly Leibovich, co-founder and director of Australia’s largest e-commerce site, Catch of the Day, has the track record to prove it.

Of course all project managers need to know how to manage a project, and this means they need to be expert in the key project management knowledge areas covered in basic project management training.

But the best project managers have additional skills that help make their projects a success. Have you got these skills, and if you do, are you using them as effectively as you could?

1. The ability to inspire – and communicate that inspiration