Category: Leadership In Action

The world in which most of us lead and manage is increasingly less robust and more unstable. Technology is changing faster than ever, bringing both threats and massive opportunities. Political and social forces are causing major changes, with migration, population pressures, multiculturalism, racial tension and the rising global gap between haves and have-nots impacting labour […]

Every year thousands of businesses interact with customers and suppliers internationally on the platform of trade missions: international trips organised by business people and government representatives to discuss business issues and facilitate trade. Trade missions may be led by federal, state or regional representatives. They may be organised by industry associations or by specialist agencies […]

In our increasingly connected world, global excellence emerges from the most surprising locations. Take Attica restaurant, for example. This award-winning eatery is located not in some gastronomic hotspot – Paris, London, New York or even Las Vegas – but on a small shopping strip in the sleepy Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea. In June this year, Attica was […]

When Jack Andraka was 14 years old, a close family friend died from pancreatic cancer. Andraka, now 19, didn’t even know what a pancreas was back then. Armed with what he describes as “teenage optimism”, he became determined to discover all he could about the disease that had taken the life of a person he […]

Super networkers have a great list of contacts and a network composed of many loose connections that foster the flow of opportunities and ideas. Here are 15 of Australia’s super networkers, the ‘golden contacts’ everyone wants to know. David Gonski Chancellor of the University of NSW, chair of the ANZ Banking Group and Coca-Cola Amatil […]

It’s much easier to speak your mind when you’re no longer holding high office, of course, but one might say it was how politics was done in the past. Back then there was no Twitter or selfies to be seen, but rather a genuine contest of ideas about local and global challenges. One issue both leaders […]

Networking can happen anywhere at any time. It can occur at an official event where you’ve planned your outfit, your opening liners and perfected your business card delivery or it can be as simple as an Uber ride on the way. In the lead up to National Networking Day on Monday, August 29, at AIM we asked the […]

People before profits I’ve been asked by Toyota to evaluate their plan and so far have found that their approach starts with a philosophy of “people before profits”. But does putting people before profits make for a less profitable company? I’ve found the opposite situation at Toyota. In my interviews and meetings with dozens of […]

The premise: up to 65,000 of Australia’s graduates – nearly a third – will be unemployed four months after they finish their tertiary studies in 2016, says the federal government. So, how useful is a degree? THE CONSULTANT Paul Peterson Training consultant and facilitator. We no longer accept that some people are born effective leaders. […]