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Insights that Inspire Transformation

Explore our thought leadership and resources, designed to challenge conventional thinking and guide your organisation towards long-term value. Learn from leading research, forward-thinking theories and practical tools.

Future Normal Book

The Future Normal Book - Challenge Convention and unlock long-term value

The Future Normal Book presents a new approach to organisational transformation. The book challenges conventional business logic and lays out 8 essential questions that can help you reshape your organisation for lasting success.

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Unleashing the Power of Corporate Narrative

Insights from the World’s most Progressive Companies

In collaboration with Brandpie, we examined the world’s most progressive companies to understand how their corporate narratives influence long-term performance. This report reveals that companies with a narrative that is beyond themselves outperform their competitors.

Key insights

  • Between 2010 and 2024, the companies analysed outperform the MSCI world index by 30%.

  • Companies with a corporate narrative that enables a world we all want to live in and or tackles a challenge we face and thus inherently views the company as a tool rather than an end in itself, correlates to enhanced success. These companies perform nearly twice as others, achieving higher highs and more resilience during downturns.

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Purpose Statements and Superior Performance

The Power of Purpose: How Companies Drive Long-Term Success

Also conducted with Brandpie, this research examines the impact of purpose statements on company performance. Our findings highlight how companies with clear, succinct purpose statements significantly outperform those without-both in terms of of financial metrics (ROE,ROA) and ESG performance.

key Insights

  • Purpose-driven companies outperform their peers in financial and ESG metrics.

  • Short, clear purpose statements are more effective than long ones.

  • Connecting your organisation’s purpose to the problems the world faces is key to driving long-term value.

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Company Values - Same or Different

Shaping the Future - Values that Matter

This review of ASX100 companies reveals the most and least popular values driving corporate culture. While values like collaboration and integrity are common, there is an opportunity for companies to lead by incorporating values like bravery, care and long-term thinking.

Key Insights

  • The most popular values are collaboration, integrity and excellence in the ASX100. These are also the same the world over.

  • To lead in stewardship and long-term value, companies need to elevate values such as bravery, care, long-term thinking.

Download the ASX100 Values Report

Short Perspective Pieces to Challenge and Reflect

These short, 3-5 minute reads are designed to provide you with opportunities for reflection and inspiration for your organisation. They are released on LinkedIn and also available for download below. They are released every few weeks.

The Pieces

  1. Asking the now radical questions to deliver the future normal - this piece explores change from a historical perspective, hence the image of the boss smoking in the office. Released 5th January 2025 - Download this Coffee-Break Read

  2. The next coffee break read is coming soon

Coffee-Break Reads