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By Nicola Field | Photo by Michael Bowers   Laura Tingle has a celebrated career as a journalist and author. Formerly the Political Editor of The Australian Financial Review, Tingle is currently the Chief Political Correspondent of the ABC’s 7.30 program. Leadership Matters caught up with Tingle to seek her views on the changing nature […]

Managers and Leaders can make or break an organisation’s efforts to generate fresh ideas and evolve. Innovation and creative thinking are common management buzz words that managers and leaders hear every day. To some, these words are frightening – the fear of the unknown – and yet to others these same words are embraced as […]

What happens when you find yourself managing people… by accident? Not all managers start out with aspirations to become a leader. For many, it’s a role they find themselves in by accident; one for which they’ve never been adequately prepared. It can happen if you stay at a company for a long time, and rise […]

Executives with international experience are increasingly seen as a competitive advantage for the organisations they lead. International mobility is an important career goal for 63% of the Australian workforce, and for 89% of Australian millennials, according to two studies by PwC. We asked two AIM Members what their international leadership experiences have taught them about […]

The Internet is constantly evolving, offering new opportunities and at times disrupting the economy. But it also poses infinite opportunities to faff about and lose vast amounts of time and money. This guide might help you harness what’s good and avoid some of the potential traps. 1. Choose a browser with more functions Today’s user […]

Technological innovation is accelerating, and putting pressure on businesses to adapt faster, embrace the new, shed the old, disrupt or be disrupted … Blink. Did you miss something? In an exponentially interconnected world, the revolution is constant and it’s nigh on impossible to measure the pace or scope of change. No Ordinary Disruption, the recent book by McKinsey Global Institute’s Richard Dobbs, James […]

In the past couple of months, I’ve been privileged to interview a number of high-profile people about different aspects of global leadership. Some of these interviews took me to London, which I love visiting, but hated living there. (I couldn’t stand the long, dark months from about October to May.) But seeing London as a tourist is […]