Posts in April 2018

Lifelong business education can keep you up to date, raise your awareness, help you broaden your network and re-skill when needed. Business education can help you hone your skills and sharpen your attunement to the environment.

Unlike other disciplines, the concepts and tools discussed as part of business education acquire…

Professor M. Azizul Islam, recently gave a seminar on limitations to traditional (financial) accounting in a socio-ecological context, to a group of social scientists and ecologists at James Hutton Institute. In his latest blog he discusses the limitations to traditional accounting in a socio-ecological context.

Traditional accounting disregards ecological…

Facebook and other large media focused service providers have for too long been overly cavalier with customers' data, in particular with their personally identifiable information (PII). The attention being focused on this event shows they are no longer too large to be unaccountable. Indeed, with the advent of the new…

Last week employers were reporting on gender wage differences. Unsurprisingly, the data show most employers pay more to men on average. The question is what is generating the difference? It is easy to interpret the difference as a measure of discrimination. This is certainly the tone of the current debate.

'It was a failure of my leadership' stated Australian captain Steve Smith  last week. Leadership issues feature daily in our news but last week opened up a host of leadership stories.

As the cricket scandal broke it appeared that the Australian Cricket Captain And Vice Captain were being suspended alongside…