Category: New In Leadership

Across the globe, people recently celebrated International Women’s Day on or around March 8. IML hosted almost 2,000 attendees and engaged 25 speakers across five events in four days for our International Women’s Day Great Debate. IML has been a proud supporter of International Women’s Day in Brisbane for the past 19 years and we successfully […]

  Carolyn Taylor, leadership consultant and author of Walking the Talk, tells us what good management means to her, which CEOs she’d invite to lunch and the most important quality for a new leader. IN A SENTENCE, WHAT DOES GOOD LEADERSHIP LOOK LIKE TO YOU? I think walking your talk would have to be the answer […]

A quick and dirty guide to popular trends in the project management sphere. BY CAROLYN BOYD   Project management is changing thanks to new methodologies and the development of new technology. Here are 7 trends currently holding sway in the world of project management. 1. AGILE The Agile method of managing a project, an iterative […]

Secret recordings have made headlines in recent times. In October 2015, embattled Fair Work Commission vice-president Michael Lawler admitted on television that he had recorded conversations with his boss, Fair Work president Iain Ross, over a number of years. In May 2015, media reports surfaced that Justice John Byrne had secretly recorded on his smartphone an […]

No sector is safe from digital disruption – just ask the taxi industry following the unstoppable rise of Uber as its competitor. Now white-collar professions such as accounting, banking, financial advising and even the legal profession are considered vulnerable to digital competitors. How can you help your business survive digital disruption, or better yet, become […]

A buzzword which has been enjoying a longer shelf life than most is ‘resilience’, but during its time in the management theory sun it has experienced a subtle change of meaning. Once it was a compliment, paid to someone who had survived a period of great adversity and emerged whole. But I am starting to […]

Businesses all over Australia are enjoying the many benefits of diversity in the workplace. In Western Australia, every time people turn on a tap or flush their toilets they can thank Sue Murphy and her diverse team at the Water Corporation. Murphy, the organisation’s CEO, says almost everyone from Margaret River in the south to […]

Innovative agricultural leaders like David and Rebecca Comiskey are a new breed of farmers who are updating management practices and on-farm technology to improve the viability of their family businesses. Running ‘Melton’, a grazing property near Alpha, about 450km west of Rockhampton in Queensland, the couple are taking a strategic, organic approach to cattle breeding […]

Airport and inflight WiFi Back in 2015, American Express and the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) published a survey of 3851 well-travelled executives in its GBTA Business Traveller Sentiment Index Global Report. The aim was to find out what business travellers want. The index revealed a growing interest in mobile cashless wallets; that millennial corporates […]