“In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive”
Welcome to the Maguire Consulting Blog. The quote above is from Dr Jordan Peterson, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto. It perfectly incapsulates the unfashionable, but enlightened view that truth emerges from the contest of ideas, often contentious and sometimes offensive.
The world of business and employee relations is fertile ground for debate and opinions. The aim of this blog is to critically analyse the issues that impact upon Australian businesses in areas of greatest importance to their success. Issues such as public policy, productivity, innovation, competition policy, small business support, employment regulation, workplace health and safety, workplace rights laws, and superannuation.
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Digital disruption is the latest fashionable phrase punctuating the world of management consulting, government and academia. It seems we are doomed unless we get disruptive. If that is the case, why is the Australian political class desperate to tie business up in more and more regulatory knots? As…
On the steps of the Victorian Parliament this year, our Australian Prime Minister promised Victorian volunteer fire fighters that he would save them from the evil clutches of the United Fire Fighters Union if re-elected. When Parliament resumes next week he gets his chance. Proposed amendments to…
After eighteen months, volumes of evidence, productivity commission reports, arguments for and against and a national election that solved nothing, a decision on modern award penalty rates in Hospitality, Entertainment, Retail, Restaurant and Cafe (HERRC) businesses is imminent and nobody has any…
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix” The plaintive opening cry of American poet Allen Ginsberg’s long poem “Howl’ comes strangely to mind…