Category: Leadership Q&A

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

For the past five years, Kevin Badin has been doing his bit to address Australia’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) shortage. STEM disciplines are closely linked to innovative new industries, but Australian students have been falling behind. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) compares student achievement in maths and science at age 15 […]

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 […]

Lina Ranieri AIMM explains why her job in a public sector agency with 18,000 employees is a perfect fit for a ‘people person’. 1. On the job I’ve been with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) since 2000. I look after things like recruitment, strategy for leadership and culture, and secondments with the private sector. I also […]

Two decades later, Yothu Yindi manager Alan James’s award for 1993 Northern Territory Manager of the Year is still proudly on show in his office. BY NIGEL ADLAM   Alan James was surprised – and delighted – when he won an Institute of Managers and Leaders Excellence Award in 1993. He was named Northern Territory […]

“THE KEY IS SELF-CONTROL” John Goddard Director, Better Managers Ego often gets a bad reputation – think of extreme individuals such as Alan Jones, Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian. But I believe that ego, when understood and controlled, is a good thing. The key is self-control. When others see you valuing yourself above the team, […]

John Withers didn’t set out to coach a girls’ rowing team, but like a lot of parents who show an interest in their child’s sport, he was pulled into a vortex. “I went to see my daughter row and the minute someone heard I knew a bit about the sport, I was suddenly no longer on […]