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Barriers to growth – challenges for midsize business
Su-Ming Wong | September 5, 2017Australian midsize businesses face their own unique barriers to growth. Champ Ventures Chief Executive Officer Su-Ming Wong outlines the 5 greatest challenges effecting the sector.
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Impact, performance, purpose – 3 key drivers to attract and retain talent
Nicky Carp | September 1, 2017The ability to successfully recruit and retain the talented individuals needed to drive success is an enduring challenge for medium sized enterprises. Nicky Carp Co-Founder and Executive Director of Unified Healthcare Group (UHG) explains.
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Priorities and practical recommendations for the midsize business sector
Elisabetta Magnani | August 31, 2017Economic integration and success in a world of compressed development poses new challenges to all companies, but particularly to midsize businesses. Macquarie University’s Professor Elisabetta Magnani identifies how midsize companies in Australia can nurture harmony, encourage employees and drive success.
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Imagining a Smarter Australia
Martin Hosking | August 30, 2017Culturally we need to move towards genuinely celebrating those companies that are part of a smarter future for Australia based on our people and skills. Redbubble co-founder, Martin Hosking, discusses the need for government and cultural shift to encourage more innovation and related economic growth.
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Celebrating diversity and promoting social inclusion in our community
Victor Perton | August 21, 2017Australians need charismatic leaders who have a long term vision for the country. Not leaders driven by personal ambition or motivated by lobbies or donor’s interests. Shepparton based community leader Rashidi Samaili considers Australian leadership.
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The true value of fundraising is life experience
Sarah McKenzie | August 9, 2017Fundraising not only has a transformative impact on disadvantaged members of society, like the young residents of Stepping Stone House, but affects the fundraisers themselves. Ray Sykes shares his inspiring story with Sarah McKenzie.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) and emerging security concerns
Tanveer Zia | August 7, 2017The internet was not invented to be a controlled system, yet it is a backbone for every device capable of connectivity, making it open to global attacks. Associate Professor Tanveer Zia considers security responses within the ever-expanding IoT.
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The Pursuit of Reasons in the Age of Algorithmic Authority
Joshua Ngai | August 3, 2017Technology is increasingly making day-to-day decisions on our behalf, its awareness of our behaviours growing with use. Secrecy prevails to some degree in all large institutions, but opacity seems to be at the heart of algorithmic models. Joshua Ngai suggests we take a moment to consider the lack of transparency.
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Australian citizenship – who is in and who is out?
Dominic O'Sullivan | August 1, 2017Recent activity in the Australian Senate has us questioning who is Australian? Australia shares high level national security information with some of the jurisdictions that Canavan, Ludlam, Waters and perhaps Banks and Roberts hold citizenship with, yet we find their citizens threatening. Dominic O’Sullivan considers.
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Does the Bystander Effect exist in workforce cyberbullying?
Charmein Madden | July 28, 2017Would you step in if you knew a colleague was being cyberbullied? Charmein Madden considers whether a well-known phenomenon called the Bystander Effect exists in workplace cyberbullying and whether the relationship we have with the victim makes a difference.
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Engaging large employers in return-to-work strategies
Catherine Fritz-Kalish | July 25, 2017The Second Roundtable in the GAP Recovery at Work series focused on strategies to encourage recovery at work after soft tissue injuries and how to ‘Engage Large Employers in Best Practice’. Catherine Fritz-Kalish, Managing Director of Global Access Partners, releases the 2017 Roundtable findings through Open Forum.
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The cycle of youth homelessness in Australia – and how you can help
Jason Juretic | July 17, 20171 in 200 Australians are sleeping rough each night, half of this number is under 25. Jason Juretic, CEO of Stepping Stone House looks at the adage “it takes a village to raise a child” and how it can help combat youth homelessness.