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BHP’s new Big Mac needs to find growth amid chaos
The transition from BHP chairman Ken MacKenzie to Ross McEwan will be very smooth, but the new boss will quickly find himself in some choppy waters.
A colleague at National Australia Bank once told this column that Ross McEwan had a superpower: “The ability to ask the obvious, simple question and not get distracted by the 10 per cent of complexity.”
Having been appointed NAB chief executive amid the bank’s post-royal commission crisis, McEwan restored the market’s faith in NAB by preaching a back-to-basics approach: simplify the bank, look after customers, care for staff, and the rest will take care of itself.
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