Anyone who tells you to have a 3-5 year plan set in stone, is completely nuts…
In what we promise will be a day of DARING Acceleration, Reinvention and Evolution, our first showcase for 2012 will feature five of Australia’s most prominent speakers and inspiring thought leaders.
As a futurist, Mike Walsh doesn’t discuss gadgets or technology. His interest is in human behaviour and how the modern world is shaping our society. In just a few years, the majority of consumers will have never known a world without the internet. How does this shape their expectations of…
A leader who can inspire and motivate their team is more important now than ever. Yet recent Randstad research shows the gap between what we need from our leaders and what they’re delivering. So what’s going on beneath the surface? And how do you avoid hitting this human capital iceberg?
Would you like your social captial to translate into better interest rates? How about more favourable lending terms because you shared your bank with your Facebook friends? Brett King’s MovenBank aims to do all that and more.
We all want it but it appears that most of us don't have nearly enough of it. What am I talking about? Happiness! Happiness research is now big business. Where once the secret of happiness was left to the philosophers to ponder, the world of science has since joined the…
Bruce helps his audiences understand how to make their brands relevant to their customers and how to differentiate themselves from competitors.
eriously...mobile at point of sale will change advertising as we know it In Wikipedia, the universal arbiter of debates on definition or trivia, "Advertising" is defined as follows: a form of communication used to encourage or persuade an audience to continue or take some new action.
Every leader faces a bacon war at some point. It starts as a seemingly trivial spat amongst colleagues but over time slow-boils into seething resentment that threatens to overwhelm your entire team. This kind of crisis may seem like typical interpersonal office issues best dealt with by your staff, but…
You’d think 2012 would be a tough year to stay positive. Even Australia’s insulated position against the global debt crisis is looking increasingly shaky, our resources boom is having a dire impact on other industries and the economies of our biggest trading partners are grinding to a halt.
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When was the last time you Googled yourself? Or 'stalked' an old acquaintance on Facebook? If you were surprised at just how much the internet seems to know about you, you're not alone. In pre-internet days, most information passed into unrecoverable obscurity in a relatively short time. Not so today…
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Since resigning the presidency of Ireland, Mary Robinson has been one of the most powerful voices for third world equality issues, climate change action and the empowerment of women to help solve these issues. In this video Ms Robinson discusses how climate change has a greater impact on women in…
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Why do most new year’s resolutions fail to provide lasting results? Why do even the best sales teams manage only a 10% cold call conversion rate? And why do some leaders attract a cult-like following while others struggle to hold authority - even with the threat of job termination in…
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Is your company waiting for the good old times to return, when consumer behaviour wasn’t shifting into a new age of internet domination and mobile phone applications? In this blog article Sam Cawthorn looks at why this is an irresponsible, yet universal way of thinking, which is doing your business more harm…
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The traditional way of banking is under threat due to the changing consumer behaviour we are currently witnessing. In this blog article bestselling author of Bank 2.0, Brett King, shares some fascinating facts, figures and future insights with us, as banks all around the world announce branch closures.
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Well it’s the end of the year again! Most of us will soon be having a well-deserved break after yet another intense year, where the demands of life and work have once again increased dramatically, leaving some of us exhausted.
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Well it’s the end of the year again! Most of us will soon be having a well-deserved break after yet another intense year, where the demands of life and work have once again increased dramatically, leaving some of us exhausted.
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Fighter pilot Christian 'Boo' Boucousis is a human behavior and deep performance specialist and inspirational keynote speaker who explores a world beyond high performing teams and high-performance leaders.
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We were delighted to have been able to recently share international author and speaker, Yossi Ghinsberg with some of our clients during our DARE showcase series. Lost in the uncharted wilderness of the Amazon for 20 days, Yossi's harrowing true story of sheer survival has moved audiences worldwide. We captured his…
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The world is changing more rapidly than ever, which is creating major challenges for the education sector. It is apparent that education organisations need to face and overcome these challenges, in order to shift with the trends and remain relevant.
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Last month the ODE team DARED to run two more speaker showcases, one in Sydney and the other in Melbourne. Two hundred people gathered on a crisp August morning at Doltone House and a week later another hundred and forty people got together at Maia in Melbourne. Both audiences were inspired, challenged, moved and…
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Creating relevant, engaging and differentiated learning experiences in an uncertain future. Dominic Thurbon, Chief Creative Officer, ChangeLabs It is an oft-cited cliché that ‘the world is changing faster than ever’. I would argue that it is a cliché because it is true! Education, in particular, is undergoing a rapid revolution,…
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Mike Walsh: You can have too much of a good thing, especially if it wasn’t yours to start with. Here’s the perfect example – brands that shamelessly imitate the strategies of their major competitors. I was scouting the Westfield complex in Century City, LA last week and noticed a new…
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Dominic Thurbon works with companies to help them embrace new emerging technologies and deal with the rapidly changing future of the work place. With web 2.0 continually progressing, the need to collaborate across traditional business units to achieve collective outcomes has never been greater. In Dominic’s speaking demo you will…
