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CoreLogic chief executive Lisa Claes on stage at the Financial Review BOSS Young Executives Summit.

Why this CEO believes being ‘a little cold’ in interviews pays off

Lisa Claes says she can come across as “officious” when interviewing potential recruits. It’s part of a deliberate strategy to maintain objectivity.

  • Euan Black
Melanie Evans on stage with BOSS deputy editor Patrick Durkin.

The seven best tips from the BOSS Young Executives Summit

Panellists offered a plethora of advice for emerging leaders, from being selective about taking on new roles to choosing more than one mentor.

  • Sally Patten
DroneShield boss Oleg Vornik warned Australia is the target of “grey zone warfare” that is being waged via cyber attacks.

WWIII is coming and investors should be ready, says drone-downing CEO

DroneShield CEO Oleg Vornik says capital markets should back the local defence industry amid rising geopolitical tensions, and warns World War III could come in our lifetimes.

  • Tess Bennett

‘Fake it till you make it’ is terrible advice, says this bank CEO

Melanie Evans, the Australian CEO of Dutch banking behemoth ING, says young people who want to get ahead should be ready to put in some hard work.

  • Patrick Durkin

Hard calls for next-gen corporate leaders

Where does Australia place its bets on the future? It’s the coming generation of corporate leaders who will have to make big calls amid rising uncertainty, and be accountable for the results.

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August 2023

 Bingo Industries GM of innovation and strategy Tara Osborne, with her baby George, says it’s getting easier for young executives to talk about work-life balance.

The young execs making WFH work for them

A cultural review across the big professional services firm is part of a wider trend giving young workers permission to speak up without damaging their promotion opportunities.

  • Tess Bennett
The career hack this CEO wishes he'd known earlier
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The career hack this CEO wishes he'd known earlier

Speaking at BOSS Young Executive Summit 2023, AICD managing director and CEO Mark Rigotti talks about how he got switched on to journaling and the career benefits that the practice brings.

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Rio Tinto boss on working with traditional owners
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Rio Tinto boss on working with traditional owners

Rio Tinto chief executive for Australia, Kellie Parker, speaks to Patrick Durkin about the company's efforts to work with indigenous owners.

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Participants at the Financial Review  Young Executive Summit on Tuesday.

Young executives warned of ‘sustained operational crisis’

The remilitarisation of Europe, along with cyberattacks and climate change, are changing the business environment. Australia is also in the line of fire.

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Kellie Parker

Rio Tinto CEO warns Australia’s ‘vile racism’ hits Voice

The Australian CEO of Rio Tinto, whose destruction of the Juukan Gorge led to controversial cultural heritage laws that are set to be repealed, has promised traditional owners it wants to go beyond the legislation.

  • Patrick Durkin
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The elevator pitch still works: Top tips on leadership

Executives say cementing relationships with a wide variety of people is still the most potent way to prepare for leadership.

  • Jessica Sier
The mastering of technical skills gave Fiona Lang confidence and resilience.

Why putting up with boring tasks made this executive a better boss

Fiona Lang of BBC Studios says mastering technical skills early in your career will give you confidence later on.

  • Sally Patten
Louise Howard set up her own advisory practice three years after being named a BOSS Young Executive.

How these BOSS Young Executives went on to become top dog

These former young leaders became CEOs or set up their own businesses after winning the award. Here’s their advice for the next cohort coming through.

  • Euan Black

These five won BOSS Young Executive awards. This is what they do now

This year AFR BOSS celebrates the 20th anniversary of its program for outstanding leaders under 35. We talk to past winners to find out what they are up to.

  • Sally Patten, Euan Black and Patrick Durkin
Woolworths employees were individually underpaid between $250 and $12,000.

Woolworths faces criminal prosecution over leave underpayments

The retail giant is facing more than 1000 criminal charges for allegedly failing to pay long service entitlements. But some employers have warned of overreach.

  • David Marin-Guzman
 Post-COVID working options now include “workcations”, or doing a job from a holiday location; “green desking” or working amid nature, and “work from anywhere” weeks.

The rise of the ‘workcation’, ‘green desking’ and ‘work from anywhere’

Post-COVID working options now include “workcations”, or doing a job from a holiday location; “green desking” or working amid nature, and “work from anywhere” weeks.

  • Simon Kuper
Rio Tinto boss Jakob Stausholm at the Melbourne Mining Club lunch on Tuesday.

‘We’re a tech company’: Rio boss draws on lessons of history

Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm says history helps prove the miner is actually a technology company. It will need to be to solve the decade’s next big challenges.

  • James Thomson

Starting a family a ‘luxury’ as cost of living bites

Surging expenses are prompting young Australians to change their approach to having children.

  • Lucy Dean
Forage co-founder Pasha Rayan says serendipity and drive are equally important in a start-up.

The unis turning students into entrepreneurs (riding unicorns)

The success of companies such as Atlassian and AirTasker is fuelling an entrepreneurial spirit at universities, but their experts say good ideas, not dreams of money, are the golden ticket.

  • Julie Hare
EY’s personnel speak about what it is really like to work at the firm.

EY’s ideal worker ‘is always available’. Some find that unbearable

The tension between the way the firm markets itself and the reality of working there goes some way to explaining its 37.4 per cent employee turnover.

  • Edmund Tadros
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Thousands of households will have to fork out much more for their mortgages in the second half of the year when their fixed-rate periods expire.

Work-from-homers may come to regret their couch time

Capital-city employees who avoid the office may eventually find themselves replaced by cheaper workers in Manila.

  • Aaron Patrick
White-collar workers have been prepared to fight for a benefit many did not have before COVID-19.

The surprising truths about remote working

From return-to-office demands to productivity levels, a lot of what we think we know about working from home is wrong.

  • Pilita Clark

July 2023

Margaret Gardner’s final duty as vice-chancellor of Monash University, will be to officiate at the very first graduation for students at its brand-new Indonesian campus.

Why the final act in Margaret Gardner’s current job is the perfect end

Victoria’s next governor is about to hang up her academic gown for the final time after a stellar 40-year career.

  • Julie Hare
Lander & Rogers partner Sally Moten said introducing a universal right to disconnect was impractical.

Right to disconnect dismissed as ‘a step back’ for flexibility

Legislating a right to disconnect from work would undermine the move towards more flexible working, lawyers and employer groups have warned.

  • Euan Black

Boards pull back on investment amid slowing economy

BOSS this week met with boardroom heavyweights from some of our largest companies around the country who warned the economy is in “very mixed” shape.

  • Patrick Durkin and Anthony Macdonald

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