CLEAR THINKING, LESS FLUFF

Vivienne Groves 30/4/26 Vivienne Groves 30/4/26

The workforce you have may be better than you think.

When Donald Horne called Australia "the lucky country" in 1964, he wasn't paying Australia a compliment. His argument was that our prosperity owed more to geography and good fortune than to hard work or good management, and that if we did not wise up, the luck would run out.

Sixty years on this lesson is as relevant as ever: we must not coast on the assumption of fixed and innate brilliance, when what we may be observing is luck.

Vivienne Groves 23/6/25 Vivienne Groves 23/6/25

What if AI doesn’t take your job, but makes you love it?

John Kenneth Gailbraith once said that the only function of economic forecasting was to make astrology look respectable. But recent bold predictions over Artificial Intelligence is giving astrology a run for its money.

A few weeks back the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, said AI could send unemployment as high as 20 per cent. Elon Musk went so far as to say that AI will take all our jobs.

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CLEAR THINKING, LESS FLUFF

The workforce you have may be better than you think.

What if AI doesn’t take your job, but makes you love it?

"Viv delivers pragmatic work that cuts through complexity and targets what the business truly needs. She blends insight, clarity and action, and asks tough questions that lead to sustainable outcomes."

“Viv precisely asks the right questions to quickly comprehend situations, and structure problems. She then rapidly collaborates to co-create pragmatic options and solutions.”

“They worked together with us to find the solution that best fit our problem. They did not squeeze our problem into their most preferred solution.”

“Viv is creative and innovative in her thinking and has the knack of distilling complexity into sensible and workable solutions… Her focus is always on ensuring whatever she does is in the client’s interests.”

“Ero Co makes nebulous problems feel doable, not because they do it for us, but because they bring the expertise and cut through to help us see how we can solve the problem.”

“Viv brings both energy and intellect. She cares about business performance as well as individual performance. She genuinely brings both a people and a strategy lens to her work.”