Category: Leadership Matters

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 […]

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 […]

In the past 30 years, tens of thousands of children have been freed from working in slave-like conditions in the clothing factories and carpet workshops of South Asia and the cocoa farms of Africa. Their freedom is the life’s work of Indian-born Kailash Satyarthi. Hailing from Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, the former electrical engineer and […]

The property development industry has long had a reputational problem. AIM chief executive David Pich checked in with Dean Ind, managing director of Invest Property Solutions in Queensland, to see how good leadership could make a difference. DAVID PICH: Tell me a little about your business. DEAN IND: I started Invest Property Solutions 17-and-a-half years […]

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 […]

Millennials are in demand with their skill set a popular choice for employers on a global scale. A generation motivated by passion more than money, their affordability, energy and eagerness to please makes them attractive to companies, reports global talent firm Mercer. Add in being digital savvy, having an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to […]

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 […]

Good leaders capture your attention, harness your motivation and lead you in a particular direction. They are great communicators, honest and can clearly define and share their vision. But not everyone is born with such attributes. They are skills which must be developed. As a new manager who wants to create an impact, here are […]

By John Dawson FIML and Carmel McDonald FIML Office politics have a strong effect on every workplace. It seems that almost every organisation we go into is frustrated by a lack of cooperation between departments or units. Some of the classic causes are: Lack of trust Turf protection and organisational silos Competition between unit leaders […]