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Social cohesion hits record lows, support for immigration slumps
The cost of living, high interest rates, the growing wealth gap and concern over migration all contributed to Australians feeling more anxious about life.
- Patrick Durkin
- Meet The Ceo
- Tourism
This former investment banker now runs a $2b caravan park business
Grant Wilckens spent his early career raising capital for clients. Now he’s the CEO of the holiday parks company he founded, G’Day Group.
- Sally Patten
Why the Swisse CEO fasts for 19 hours a day
Nick Mann, regional CEO of the parent company that owns Swisse, has stepped up into the role of global group CEO just as the wellness industry is booming.
- Euan Black
If you want the top job, say so: Coles CEO
Leah Weckert has some refreshingly honest career advice for aspiring executives, particularly women.
- Patrick Durkin
This top fundie names the best business leaders she has met
WaveStone director Catherine Allfrey has worked in equity markets for 30 years. Over breakfast, she reveals the top thinkers who have impressed her most.
- Sally Patten
This Month
Why retail was the Bunnings MD’s third career choice, and why he stayed
Michael Schneider found doing the thing he was passionate about helped make his career much more worthwhile than seeing it as a job with a fortnightly pay.
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan
How Victoria Racing Club’s new boss plans to turn around its fortunes
Kylie Rogers was used to managing people with different priorities and agendas as one of the AFL’s top commercial executives. Now she has an even bigger challenge.
- Zoe Samios and Patrick Durkin
October
Netflix’s co-CEO says it’s ‘impossible’ to run the $500b giant alone
Greg Peters once wanted to be an astronaut – now he’s leading a company worth more than Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery combined.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Analysis
- Mining
Inside the contest to succeed Ken MacKenzie at the top of BHP
It has been one of the most coveted prizes in corporate life. The next chairman of the Big Australian will have profound influence on the entire market.
- Patrick Durkin
2024’s most powerful and influential directors revealed
As AGM season gathers pace, the BOSS index of the country’s most powerful and influential directors reveals a new cohort rising through the ranks.
- Patrick Durkin
How execs create their own jobs
BOSS talks to three executives who came up with their own titles or convinced an employer to create a new position for them.
- Euan Black
How to have a job you love, save the world and earn up to $800k
This week BOSS speaks to four executives who are helping to save the planet. All have a high level of job satisfaction, and all earn decent money. It appears it is possible to have it all.
- Sally Patten
This year’s worst corporate jargon, and the woman trying to fight it
Ducks in a row, reinventing the wheel, putting a pin in it, circling back, low-hanging fruit and thinking outside the box are among this year’s most hated buzz phrases.
- Patrick Durkin
Why Nelson Mandela’s election was a turning point for this CEO
A contract to provide the computers for South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections in 1994 was a pivotal moment in the career of BioPak CEO Gary Smith.
- Euan Black, Sally Patten and Lap Phan
Solomon Lew reveals why he is still obsessed with Myer
The 79-year-old retail billionaire has fought a lot of corporate battles over the years, but he remains fixated on the department store chain.
- Patrick Durkin
What men really think about the push for gender balance
Most men agree with the need to create equal opportunities for male and female workers, but many still harbour concerns that job appointments are not based purely on merit.
- Sally Patten
CEO son crowned head of Rich List family’s $18b plumbing empire
Owners of Australia’s largest plumbing empire, the Wilsons are less known but in the same wealth echelon as the Pratts, and son Peter is about to take charge.
- Patrick Durkin
Why this former Young Rich Lister is running for deputy mayor
Australian fashion entrepreneur and small business owner Erin Deering says she wants to make Melbourne a more business-friendly city.
- Euan Black
How office workers are losing their social skills
Consultants say incidents of inappropriate workplace behaviour are becoming more common as increasing technology use erodes our people skills.
- Euan Black
September
- Exclusive
- Qantas
Richard Goyder on his biggest mistake at Qantas
The recently departed Qantas chairman admits he made some mistakes but says people forget how the pandemic changed the game.
- Patrick Durkin
Why becoming a chief of staff is good for your career
Three top executives who took on the role early in their careers say the position was a springboard to far bigger jobs.
- Sally Patten
- Exclusive
- Disney
Disney chief goes retro for AFL finals to reel in streaming rivals
Disney’s Australian boss Kylie Watson-Wheeler is bringing her AFL obsession into her day job as the US giant takes on the dominant players in the local streaming wars.
- Patrick Durkin
AFL more important to Khuda than data centres, Swans chairman suspects
Andrew Pridham is vice chairman of asset manager MA Financial and chairman of Sydney Swans. AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda texts him before games.
- Sally Patten
Tabcorp CEO Gill McLachlan orders staff back to office five days a week
Tabcorp and Amazon have ordered their staff back to the office five days a week in the latest salvo in the work-from-home battle.
- Euan Black and Patrick Durkin
What this CEO learnt from Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
Culture Amp chief Didier Elzinga met the Atlassian duo at an awards function years ago, and got an insight into scalable business models.
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan