When Howard Schultz retook the helm of Starbucks in 2007 he was faced with a world changed and polarised by social media, and his beloved coffee chain was at the centre of several very large targets.

His approach to getting things back on track was radical. He refused to franchise the stores...

There’s an Adelaide-based public Facebook group called “I worked at the RAA when John Fotheringham was CEO”.

Fothers, as he was affectionately known, was and is still so well loved that anyone who worked with him, from cleaners to executive officers, is always keen to remember a...

While the Mad Hatter of Alice in Wonderland fame was just a slightly crazy dude who was totally into tea parties, it seems that quite a few of us are being driven mad by the sheer amount of hats we need to wear at work.

The irony is, with just a few tweaks to our organisation’s strategy, it...

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It’s been a whirlwind year for Duck Pond Solutions owner Gill Duck.

After a career in the private and public sector, she went into a consulting partnership a few years ago. Earlier this year she struck out on a new pathway.

The vision was always to have and run a business true to her own...

Duck Pond Solutions Director, Gill Duck, gave up doing things the routine way quite a few years ago.

She found progress hampered by linear thinking and the attitude of ‘that’s the way it’s always been done’, so she determined to break out, follow her gut instinct and trust...

Even in 2021 we still have leaders who are reluctant to use fun in the workplace as a leadership and development tool.

There’s still a hangover from the early days of the industrial revolution where workers were controlled and observed, and later, factory lines designed for production meant...

There is movement in the South Australian world of management consulting with the launch of Duck Pond Solutions.

Going solo after a number of years in partnership delivering solutions for blue-chip clients and peak organisations, Gill Duck is excited about charting her own course.

With a strong...