Today
What this CEO has learnt about spouting off ideas in meetings
Netwealth CEO Matt Heine is a self-proclaimed “ideas fountain,” but has learnt the trait doesn’t always work in the top job.
- 14 mins ago
- Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
This Month
Aussies aren’t all Bondi Beach fit, Ozempic’s new local exec has just realised
Novo Nordisk Oceania managing director Cem Ozenc mourns the fact Australia’s obesity challenge is lost amid the celebrity hype surrounding the medication.
- Sally Patten
‘There is no work-life balance’ for Ange Postecoglou
How does the Tottenham manager balance the Premier League with being a father and husband? He doesn’t.
- Euan Black
Why you don’t have to be ruthless to be successful
Founder of Matchbox Pictures Tony Ayres talks about how to succeed without being ruthless, the value of unsent emails and, for telling stories, the rule of three.
- Lap Phan and Ciara Seccombe
How Kmart is now more product maker than retailer
Kmart Group’s own brand has boomed, helping it deliver record profits. Its CEO says the low-cost goods chain is now more product maker than retailer.
- Patrick Durkin
Adam Powick failed to make partner twice. Now he runs Deloitte
The chief executive says when people fail to get a promotion, they are often told they are doing a good job and should continue along the same path. He reckons that advice is “BS”.
- Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
A complex legend: Harold Mitchell farewelled by billionaires, underworld figures
Advertising guru and philanthropist Harold Mitchell has been celebrated as a “larger than life” but complex legend.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
‘The gap below Cartier and Tiffany’: Michael Hill’s luxury play
ASX-listed jeweller Michael Hill has been undergoing a major rebranding exercise.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
Gender of directors added no financial value: study
A study by the Australian National University has found that the gender of directors appointed to company boards had no impact on the financial performance of those businesses.
- Patrick Durkin
- Opinion
- Workplace
Business school blather can’t beat real-world CEO know-how
What’s needed is a new management theory that avoids the deceptive certainties of neoliberalism and the equally deceptive vagaries of stakeholder capitalism.
- Adrian Wooldridge
Why Kogan stops interviews with marathon runners to hire them
BOSS sat down with Kogan.com founder Ruslan Kogan just as his share price collapsed by 30 per cent.
- Patrick Durkin
Judge retires to consider if Pauline Hanson is a racist
After a bitterly fought trial, a judge has retired to consider whether Pauline Hanson made a racial slur when telling a Muslim senator to go back to Pakistan.
- Miklos Bolza
April
A judge may decide if Pauline Hanson is a white supremacist
The far-right senator’s career of racial commentary is on trial in the Federal Court.
- Aaron Patrick
This CEO didn’t go to uni and never had a career plan
Australia Post chief Paul Graham left school and tried out myriad manual jobs. Now he is responsible for 63,000 employees.
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan
The unlikely CEO team tackling Australia’s toughest job
Bran Black and Luke Achterstraat represent business at the opposite ends of the spectrum but are determined to present a united front in Canberra.
- Patrick Durkin
What happens when Rio Tinto’s Australian CEO gets cranky
Kellie Parker, Rio Tinto’s Australian boss, discusses what happens when she gets tired, why she likes puzzles and why she continually tracks her emotions.
- Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
Why this leading brain expert doesn’t do the same thing every day
Neuroscientist Raymond Dolan says people who continue to have an exploratory goal-directed life appear to be less susceptible to disorders like dementia.
- Jill Margo
The advice that’s helped Loudon navigate the boardroom
Bridget Loudon says some wise words from her mum have stuck with her as she’s navigated life as the director of a blue-chip giant.
- James Thomson
Why this CEO keeps Fridays for thinking
Claire Rogers has co-founded a technology start-up that draws on her experience as a former ANZ executive and World Vision CEO.
- Patrick Durkin
Why this top 100 CEO gets his executives to swap jobs
The architect of a corporate experiment where the execs change jobs admits it is a little on the crazy side for a $5.2 billion, top 100 ASX tech company.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
