Category: Manage myself

Employment specialist Peter Barber FIML talks to Nicola Heath about how to make retirement and semi-retirement work for you. What makes a fulfilling retirement? It’s a question Baby Boomers, the five million or so Australians born between 1946 and 1966, are having to face as they reach retirement age. The answer is not endless rounds of golf, […]

  Musician Jack White’s Third Man Records is helping rebuild Detroit with a brand new vinyl record pressing plant and outlet stores. Is there life for legacy industries post-disruption? BY JAMES JENNINGS   A funny thing happened alongside the rapid rise of digital music streaming services: vinyl albums – those cumbersome 12-inch plastic slabs that […]

Canberran KEN KROEGER is overseeing a revolution in car-safety technology.

Dr Catherine Ball says drones suffer from a bad reputation. “People think a drone is a little toy or something that delivers a bomb,” she says. “You’ll hear about people flying them illegally and crashing into things, or using them to take photos of their cheating spouses and stuff like that. And that’s what bothers me. This […]

Even experts can fall for a lie. Leslie John is the last person you’d expect to have been duped. The Harvard Business School professor teaches negotiation tactics for dealing with liars, so she was blindsided when she fell for the oldest trick in the book. She found herself in a six-month relationship with a man […]

The workplace is changing, and with it the skills that workers need to thrive in a digital and diverse environment. Here are four skills that will be in highly sought after by employers in the future: 1. Emotional judgement EJ, the new EQ, is now a top priority for many employers. “Emotional judgement is the ability […]

Mark Wengritzky believes creativity is the greatest competitive advantage that humans have over machines, so he’s often puzzled why companies invest in innovative technology but don’t put the same money into innovative thinking. “Too many companies think that being innovative is about building an app or getting the latest and greatest technology,” he says. “Technology […]

Innovation is more than a buzzword into one of Australia’s largest provincial cities, Geelong. The Victorian city joins South Australia’s Adelaide in establishing an innovation hub in which tech startups are encouraged to set up shop amid a culture that encourages digital disruption in what is already a multi-billion dollar industry for the two states. […]

When faced with your next big decision, be sure to use the 10-step checklist to ensure the best course of action is taken. Further information can be found about each step in Leadership Direct. Action Checklist Be clear about the scope of the decision you are faced with Consider the potential impact of the decision […]