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Staying Ahead of the Competition

How does an established manufacturer counteract the current challenges besetting the industrial products and systems sector? Better still, how have they managed to defy the industry trend of cost cutting, savage restructuring, lay-offs, dwindling sales and financial losses to stand tall as the best performing business, of its class, in Australia. The mining downturn, the […]

Associated Grain Customer Satisfaction Report 2017 (Growers)

During 2017, Associated Grain announced the sale of the business to Agrocorp International. Agrocorp International is a global agri-commodity trading business, founded in Singapore in 1990 and with trading revenues upwards of 3 billion USD. We are so pleased that Todd Jorgensen is staying on as the innovative and driven CEO. Todd and Associated Grain […]

People At Their Best – Case Studies Summary – 2017

We are pleased to share 3 new case study summaries. This year we have included direct client findings on the impact and return on the work we have done together. We have purposely chosen 3 engagements only, as they represent the depth of the work we undertake but also the breadth of clients we work […]

Winter 2017 Newsletter & New Office

Dear Friends and Colleagues, On the 1st of June we opened our new office in Phillip Street Parramatta. It is extraordinary to look out at the Parramatta skyline and know that there are more cranes than anywhere else in the country. The region is booming and we are excited to be part of it. While […]

Cycles Of Torture — Tour de France

I felt like I was flying — like a bird, diving and rolling, weightless and untethered. Everything looked so blue, so sharp. I felt incredibly alive. Into hairpin bends my body surged forward dangerously close to the edge, disregarding the terrifying 1,000-metre cliff drops. The mountains engulfed me. Drenched in sweat, I cycled higher and […]

Design like an Italian & build like a German

Design like an Italian, build like a German and execute like the Chinese. It is a crude generalisation I know, but I have been thinking that we need a lens through which we can benchmark our own performance. Maybe it is simpler to say that everything we do should be beautiful and done with great […]

Authoritarianism and Donald Trump

I read a great piece recently titled, The Rise of American Authoritarianism, which seeks to explain the ascent of Donald Trump – https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism What made the article universal was that it spoke of latent conservatism and fear, where people see change as a threat and would rather life, not only stay the same, but return […]

End of 2016 Summer Newsletter

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Since our last Newsletter, early this year, People At Their Best have helped 5 businesses articulate their strategic plan, facilitated more than 40 executive coaching sessions, delivered over 30 leadership workshops, helped launch 2 new businesses, run 1 Mayoral campaign, corrected over 100 university exam papers, published 2 articles, administered countless […]

The Triumph of Trump & the Dawn of a Dark Age

THE election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the USA and the decision by the UK to exit the European Union are, I believe, consequences of where we are on the evolutionary journey, mere manifestations of the fear that drives our behaviour. In many ways the election of Trump was inevitable — it represents […]

Why a Healthy Culture is Critical to Your Success

Q&A with Directing Growth’s Dom Meli In his role as AICD’s People and Culture Facilitator, Dom was recently interviewed about the role of culture in growing a business. Why are a positive culture and engaged workforce critical to business success? A lot of research has been done in this area, and what it shows is […]