Category: Leadership Matters

Judy Harbison has been a veterinarian for 26 years and now has an interest in seven practices across Brisbane. She completed an MBA in 2013, but joined IML’s mentoring program to gain some guidance about the next stage of her business. Her mentor, Ashwin Hurribunce, first trained as a radiologist in South Africa and is now […]

Too many meetings at work is a common experience. In a session with a senior client recently, we sat in front of his calendar to find a good time to plan a critical new project. I knew we’d be hard-pressed to find any available time over the next couple of weeks, but as we scrolled […]

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 […]

Place yourself in a second scenario: you head a market-leading company that wants to expand. You identify a struggling business, which has been trounced by its main competitor and been stagnant for a decade. You make a leadership decision to significantly outbid two private equity firms and pay well above what the market expected for the […]

The Australian men’s basketball team spends less than a month together in any given year, but training drills and what people may describe as traditional teamwork have not figured prominently in the Boomers’ preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. “At our skill level, we are not going to make a player […]

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. […]

In Hobart’s tourist hub, Salamanca, sits a shop devoted to all things fishy: whacking great whole salmon, fillets – raw, smoked and unsmoked – and all manner of associated products, even fish-shaped (but thankfully not flavoured) biscuits. This retail outlet, run by the country’s largest salmon producer, Tassal, and its sister store in Melbourne represent the […]

AIM CEO David Pich and Deakin University vice-chancellor Jane den Hollander discuss the different ways leaders make an impact. Jane den Hollander, vice-chancellor of Victoria’s Deakin University, is seizing the future of tertiary education with both hands, with her ambitious plans to transform the institution into the best cloud-based university in the world. The daughter […]