This report was the lead item on the Channel 9 6pm news bulletin in Melbourne on Wednesday 18 April 2012. The article drew on ThinkEvans research into the changing nature of working life, including the dramatic rise over the last decade in workforce participation by women 55-64 years. The ThinkEvans analysis looked at data from…
Category: Thinking
Being a boutique management consultancy, a majority of our work and client reports remain confidential to that client, and we can only provide an indication via the material under the Client Activities heading.
Posts here highlight a cross section of our material that is in the public domain to provide a taste test of our work and related goings on – news articles, shorter comments and longer think pieces, web sites in which we are involved, reports in the public domain, and so on.
Good news, bad news … & 6 o’clock news
ThinkEvans’ research on the changing nature of working lives has had spawned discussion right around Australia this week – after an article on page 4 of the Sydney Morning Herald* on Tuesday, 10 April, quoting our research. (Read more about the research) Radio stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Perth interviewed Managing Director Carolyn…
Women vote with their feet to top up their super
Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall talk about how the changing nature of working life in Australia shows how women are rethinking super Women in the “transition to retirement years” are voting with their feet to top up their super. In the course of conducting research for our “Fair Enough?” report submitted recently to…
Testing
Perhaps the biggest challenge for any writer is when they actually hear their words spoken by another – and the first time particularly so! So when Roslyn’s play The Test was chosen as one of the top 110 plays in the Sydney Short + Sweet Festival, we were all on the edge of our seats in sympathy…
The mystique of franchising holds past the (latest) GFC
Does franchising look more than ever to be the new black for small business? asks Tanya van der Wall and Carolyn Evans. Revisiting a paper developed originally for our client, the Australian Business Foundation, the team reviews signals that franchising is becoming a business model in itself, not just a vehicle for growth or a phase…
The importance of breaking ranks in the board room
Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall write about deserving trust – including the part where sometimes that trust requires dissent, and breaking ranks in the board room. Corporate governance has been a topic de jour routinely over the last decade or so. Some attempt to shroud it in professional mystery (perhaps to generate the…
A square is a rectangle but …
Those of us still scarred by primary school maths remember that a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square. And so it goes with decision making, writes Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall, where not all roles in decision making processes are decision making roles. Reviewing past decisions is a crucial…
What constitutes consensus?
What constitutes consensus? It rather depends on the context. Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall write about being collegiate but still reaching definitive decisions. Common use of the word ’consensus‘ can be confusing because it implies both an indistinct form of general agreement and connotes the character of any processes by which such agreement might…
Measuring consensus – a note on determining agreement
Achieving consensus by exhaustion is not decision making, writes Carolyn Evans, in a think piece for our coaching and mentoring practice. No board should allow the indistinct notion of “consensus” to over ride their legal, fiduciary and other duties as directors – and other decision making groups have parallel responsibilities which ought to be treated with equal respect….
Inside the Innovation Matrix
Client: the Australian Business Foundation Subtitled ‘finding the hidden human dimensions’, this book is a compendium of expert papers from academics and business leaders that probe into the process of innovation to better understand the intricacies involved. Carolyn Evans, Managing Director of ThinkEvans, led this project on behalf of our client, the Australian Business Foundation….
Happy new financial year from the lapsed economist
It was the mad rush to the end of the financial year. We were in the midst of both closing the books for the year AND delivering a major piece in our project about measuring the outcomes in the military justice system in the Australian Defence Force. Our eyes were all spinning around the wrong…
Can’t buy me … wellbeing
Just like in the Beatles song (for those older than our youngest consultant/research assistant), money can’t buy love, happiness, wellbeing … or can it? We are interested in exploring the nexus between prosperity and wellbeing: There are a number of inputs to this discussion that have been published already by quite diverse authorities, and we…