Category: New In Leadership

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 […]

Cybersecurity is a huge risk for businesses and a serious concern for managers, as recent high-profile online hack attacks demonstrate. With cybercrime now costing Australian businesses more than $1 billion annually, the question being asked is whether protection of an organisation’s digital assets should be left solely with the IT department. Recent cyber attacks have […]

  Business in regional Australia is thriving far from the gleaming towers of state capital CBDs. Nearly half (43 per cent) of the nation’s small businesses (under 20 employees) are based in regional and rural areas, says Roy Morgan Research. And one in five income earners outside the capital cities are business owners, compared to one in […]