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In a Volatile World, Your Strategy Must Be Flexible

Michael Mankins, Harvard Business Review

Although it sounds cliché, the world really is a more volatile place than it used to be. That’s because the drivers of uncertainty are more intense — there are more and more change vectors affecting outcomes and these vectors are more and more inter-related. The range of likely outcomes five and 10 years has grown...

In the era for social responsibility, corporate brands need a higher purpose with Melanie McMillan

In the era for social responsibility, corporate brands need a higher purpose with Melanie McMillan

Very Public Affairs Podcast, The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 05 October 2022

In this episode of Very Public Affairs, The Centre’s Executive Director Wayne Burns talks with the Centre’s Senior Associate and reputation brand doctor, Melanie McMillan about stewarding the corporate brand in an era where this is so much focus on ESG, and how this manifests itself in corporate strategy....

Corporate Australia just received a glowing profit report card, but the outlook is not as rosy

Rachel Pupazzoni, ABC, 12 September 2022

Corporate Australia just received a glowing profit report card, but the outlook is not as rosy...

How to build geopolitical resilience amid a fragmenting global order

Andrew Grant, Ziad Haider, and Jean-Christophe Mieszala, Mckinsey

Organizations need to strategically invest in capabilities, people, processes, structures, and technology to navigate the risks arising from an evolving and fraught geopolitical landscape.

Airfare increase the highest in a decade and flights fuller than ever, ACCC report warns

Jade Toomey, ABC, 07 September 2022

The cost of an an airfare has increased by more than half since April, the country's consumer watchdog has warned...

The new work–life balance

Adam Bryant, Strategy+Business

The phrase seems increasingly outdated, given how much our work and our lives are now intertwined. It’s time for a new framework.

Johnson & Johnson will discontinue talc-based baby powder in 2023

Melissa Maykin, ABC, 14 August 2022

Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling talc-based baby powder in 2023, as it transitions its popular, but controversial, global product to a cornstarch base. The move comes two years after it ended US sales due to thousands of consumer safety...

Why companies aren’t living up to their climate pledges

John Goddard, Harvard Business Review

Organisations are increasingly making firm commitments to sustainability. However, new research conducted by L.E.K. Consulting suggests many of these organizations are struggling to deliver on their commitments. Setting and balancing priorities is the main...

2022 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2022 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2022 Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by Professor Marcia Langton AO.

15 key considerations for businesses when commenting on political or social matters

Forbes Agency Council, Forbes

Politics and social issues can be thorny subjects, especially if a company doesn't understand where its audience's sentiments lie. A wrong step could mean a public relations disaster of epic proportions....