Category: Leadership Development

If your ultimate career goal is a leadership role like a CEO spot and/or a position on the company board, you had better get busy. No-one gets to the top of their game by chance. It requires hard work, a lot of passion, good strategic planning, a valuable network of contacts and a willingness to […]

When Melitta Hardenberg launched her own consulting business, Get Fit and Focused, which specialises in employee wellbeing programs, her mentor, Richard Keeves, founder of Smarter Web Strategies and a fellow West Australian, helped her to avoid a disaster or two. They began meeting regularly last year while Hardenberg found her feet with the business. Here’s what […]

Was Steve Jobs a micro or a macro manager? How about Richard Branson, Warren Buffett and Martha Stewart? Find out the management style of these celebrity business leaders. BY CAROLYN BOYD     FAMOUS MACRO MANAGERS   WARREN BUFFETT Buffett is known for his laissez-faire management style. This macro approach works well because he buys […]

By Susan Muldowney, Photography by Richard Whitfield Leadership Matters sat down with Chintan Gandhi, to find out the secret to his success as a young leader. 1. On the job I head up a team of account managers and marketing executives. In the past two years we’ve acquired three companies and I played a key role […]

Failure rates for corporate change are high. Some statistics suggest they are as high as 70 per cent. What are the mistakes that too many change leaders continue to make? 1. Misdiagnosing scope Who will be affected, how much it will cost, how long it will take and how radical does a change need to […]

Gender equality at work is a serious issue for Julian Ford, head of the Solutions Engineering team at Salesforce. It is a part of the business that has traditionally had high proportion of men. Ford’s team started 2015 with 81 per cent males. In little over 12 months that proportion has dropped to 67 per […]

In 2014 a number of leading tech firms released the diversity mix of their employees. The companies that were redefining our world like Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, had a very old-world problem. Women were poorly represented in the important jobs (leadership) and the cool jobs (technology). Racial minorities fared even worse. Twelve months ago Eric […]

When Adam Arndell moved back to Tamworth after working in communications agencies in Sydney and Melbourne, he saw an enormous disconnect between metropolitan based organisations and the audiences they were trying to reach in the bush. When they come to speak to rural and regional audiences, he says, “it becomes a ‘tick-and-flick’ exercise, of book […]

How do start-ups fit in in the vision story? Is it arrogant or tempting fate to launch your humble innovation onto the market with grandiose claims of becoming the best, of changing minds, winning hearts and improving the world? Is it a risk to set your sights too high, too publicly when you are still […]