Category: Leadership Matters

Patrick Houlihan, managing director of leading paint company DuluxGroup, is standing in the Dulux Innovation Centre at the company’s head office in Clayton, describing a latex polymer resin that allows the company’s colourful products to stick to walls. For some people, this subject is akin to watching paint dry. But Houlihan can’t get enough of […]

Chris Bond OAM is a senior member of the champion wheelchair rugby team that won a gold medal for Australia at the London 2012 Paralympics. The subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Murderball, wheelchair rugby is a fast and furious game that is played very often by severely disabled men and women. Each team is allowed up […]

Carolyn Taylor is an expert in leadership and workplace culture. Her book, Walking the Talk (Random House), is “a must read for any manager embarking on the journey of cultural change”, according to Professor Lynda Gratton of the London Business School. In Australia, her early clients included the chief executives of Telstra, Westpac and Rio Tinto. After […]

Who will thrive in this era of digital disruption? For Australian businesses, it will be those who can innovate to deliver exactly what the customer wants. BY BRAD HOWARTH A defining example of digital disruption is the dramatic transformation the music industry has experienced in the last decade. In 2010, sales of recorded music in […]

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 […]

Louise Robinson is a CEO, a mother, and an Indigenous leader. As a leader, her aspirations are clear: “My aim is not to be the wealthiest CEO or to have the most toys. It’s to know I have changed one person’s life, and that that person goes on to change someone else’s life because I […]