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Business Spectator recently interviewed Christopher J. Tipler on the topic of ‘Releasing The Untapped Energy In Your Business’.
Throughout the interview, Tipler shares his knowledge of a range of strategic errors made by small and large organisations, which are littering today’s business landscape.
Tipler asks listeners to think about how they are meeting the reasonable needs of the people who work for them and explains how businesses can improve their relationships with their employees.
How Aussie Mittelstand can solve our manufacturing crisis
By Christopher J Tipler
Every day now, our manufacturing sector shows more symptoms of a potentially terminal illness. Called Dutch disease, it is the malaise caused by a high, commodity-driven, exchange rate. Across the sector jobs are rapidly disappearing. Our car industry teeters on the brink, as does aluminium production. Employment is being scaled down in steel products manufacturing, textiles, aircraft engineering, and so on.
No one knows what to do. Business leaders blame the trade unions and the dollar. Our government’s propose ‘solutions’ that will be little more than life support for desperately ill patients. The free traders look on smugly – to them it is all part of an inevitable transition to a service-based economy. Read full article
Getting value from your professional services providers.
By Christopher J Tipler
The professional services industries in Australia are enormous, employing around 400,000 people. The combined revenue of accountants, lawyers, IT and business process consultants, consulting engineers, management consultants and advertising agencies exceeds $80 billion each year. That, of course, is $80 billion of costs to businesses and governments.
This is an area of frustration for many businesses, concerned about the high cost of purchased professional services, ambivalent about the value they receive, and uncertain about how to get these costs down. Some service providers, particularly the accountants and lawyers, are often deeply embedded in the business because of the essential transactional and statutory services they provide. Others, particularly the management consultants, are less essential but they are adroit at winning the next job and always seem to be hanging around with the meter running. Read full article
What business leaders can learn from the great Antarctic explorers
By Christopher J Tipler
Over the holiday season, many business people have probably enjoyed reading Peter Fitzsimons recently released account of the adventures of Douglas Mawson, the great Australian Antarctic explorer. Woven through this absorbing book are parallel stories of the men who raced for the South Pole in the early 1900’s – Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen. It is heroic stuff, almost unimaginable to us today. Yet, as I reflected on their epic journeys, I realised that these journeys, and the men who took them, offer important lessons to business leaders. Here are some of them. Read full article
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