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Much of our work at Maximus focuses on developing leadership capabilities in this era of rapid change, so our second issue of M Magazine is dedicated to tackling the thorny topic of ‘innovation as a threat to Australia’, head-on.
At Maximus we focus our energy on creating experiences that promote future-focused thinking, enable purpose-led leadership and unlock partnering and collaboration. To this end, we have created M Magazine, a rich collection of material that’s inspirational and aspirational with genuine utility for leaders globally.
The opportunities being created by innovation and disruption are immense. Leaders must adapt and learn to be positioned to successfully ride this speeding, changing wave rather than be dumped by it.
The business world is more competitive and the rate of change accelerating faster than at any time in history. Perhaps counter-intuitively, that means that it is crucial to deliberately build and execute business strategies with a future-focused vision.
Thanks to globalisation, the importance of having leaders who can bridge the cultural divide is paramount. As CEO, your aim should be twofold: to ensure you and your people have the skills and capabilities to compete on the world stage; and to build a business strategy, infrastructure and approach that make it easy to seize every chance to trade across borders. This might mean, for example, reviewing your products with overseas opportunities in mind
In 1859, a keen hunter released 24 imported rabbits into the Australian bush, where none had roamed before. Ten years later, Australia’s wild rabbit population was in the millions and by 1920, there were 10 billion.
Many Millennials are rejecting a linear career path in favour of building a portfolio of consulting, freelancing, contracting, entrepreneurial and in-house employment experience. This opens the door for CEOs and HR directors to move towards a portfolio approach to employment that is a better fit for the dynamic modern marketplace than the traditional employer-as-owner model.
Traditional learning is historically driven out of programs and training sessions. This type of learning is a structured intervention that aims to change and improve specific areas of employee productivity. However, not everything needs to be a training course or a 70-20-10. Employee training and learning needs to be creative.
In uncertain times, it can be easy to put innovation on the back burner as too expensive, too time-consuming, and too risky. Yet controlled, ROI-driven innovation is an essential element of a successful business growth strategy and can generate ideas worth millions of dollars. In our experience, fresh thinking is essential to take organisations to new heights at any stage of the economic cycle.
With the tide slowly turning for Australian businesses, forward-thinking CEOs should be positioning for growth as well as optimising their core business. This means putting customer relationships and innovation at the top of the to-do list and replacing a survival approach with a growth mindset.