Category: New In Leadership

Blockchain technology started life as the key technical innovation of Bitcoin and now it may transform the financial services sector and beyond. What is blockchain? Blockchain technology provides indisputable proof of transactions. It’s like a network of databases that act as a shared digital ledger. Each transaction is recorded as a “block”. With new transactions, […]

The Internet is constantly evolving, offering new opportunities and at times disrupting the economy. But it also poses infinite opportunities to faff about and lose vast amounts of time and money. This guide might help you harness what’s good and avoid some of the potential traps. 1. Choose a browser with more functions Today’s user […]

The premise: 55,000 professionals from 90 countries, surveyed by the Korn Ferry Hay Group between 2011 and 2015, think that women have better emotional and social skills than men. These skills are essential for modern managers, so are women a better leadership bet than men in suits?     THE BUSINESS COACH Avril Henry AFAIM […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

High-speed rail (HSR) has been the subject of debate in Australia for decades. Why are we so slow to leave the station? An Australian HSR network High-speed rail carves an intricate grid across places such as Europe, China and Japan, where the first Shinkansen bullet train shot out of a Tokyo station more than 50 […]

I hate the way we have cynically reduced the naturally sociable instincts of human beings (we evolved as herd animals, after all) to a bloodless skill or – worse – a KPI. I have never in my life “networked”, but I will happily have a chat with just about anyone. Which brings me to another thing […]

When ambitious young leader David Bartlett , then aged 40, became Tasmanian premier in May 2008, he had a clear vision in mind for Australia’s island state. More than that, he’d planned in clear time increments what would happen in his first three hours (specifically, a media conference where he’d announce his intention to build a “clever, […]