This Month
This CEO selected the wrong project partner. It was a brutal lesson
Early in his career, Beach Energy chief Brett Woods learnt the hard way to choose your business associates wisely and run a full risk matrix first.
Board fights and mass resignations: the battle splitting the nation’s geoscientists
A bitter struggle for control of a professional association is proving that diversity, equity and inclusion remains a lightening rod for controversy.
‘We’re going to miss the boat’: departing BHP chair’s warning for Australia
Ken MacKenzie leaves with the miner in a state of relatively rare stability. But he fears Australia is failing to seize its next big opportunity.
WiseTech whistleblower warned she would never get another board role
ASIC boss Joe Longo warned of an outbreak of “issues in the bedroom migrating to the boardroom” as Christine Holman revealed the threat made to her.
Boost Juice founder on her top health hacks and her aversion for VERBS
Janine Allis, who is also behind Betty’s Burgers and a director of Kogan, explains why there is no such thing as imposter syndrome and why ‘yes’ always beats ‘no’.
March
BHP’s new chairman Ross McEwan meets investors, reads up on history
The former National Australia Bank chief executive has spent the last few weeks meeting investors and reading a profile of industrialist Essington Lewis.
SPC chief’s battle to remake the household brand
The ambitious Robert Iervasi is transforming his company, but faces sceptical investors, nervous suppliers and international trade winds.
By the time he was 37 this exec was running IBM in Australia
Nick Flood was the youngest executive to be appointed managing director in the local firm’s 92-year history.
‘No winners’: CEO of software giant SAP urges end to Trump tariff war
The head of the group, which lists clients such as Coles, Woolworths and Woodside, says all countries and businesses will lose if the trade war continues.
Why the Qantas chairman is building a maritime museum under his house
John Mullen has learnt a lot from the likes of Matthew Flinders, the first man to circumnavigate Australia, and 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
The biggest mistake even senior execs make in job interviews
Johnson Partners founder and CEO Jason Johnson says too many job candidates leave enthusiasm at the door when they go in for an interview.
The country’s highest-paid directors revealed
Here are the 18 male and two female directors in Australia paid more than $1 million a year in board fees.
Qantas chairman warns directors of ‘dominant CEOs’ in board search
The successful careers and dominant personalities of founders and overly powerful CEOs can trip up even the most seasoned corporate players, John Mullen says.
Jun Bei Liu: How I learnt to speak up
The co-founder and portfolio manager at TenCap never felt she could express her opinion. That changed, although she says she still lives with imposter syndrome.
The four actor ‘tricks’ giving executives more confidence
A university course run by actors is teaching executives how to communicate with a rock-star presence.
Meet the workplace vibers powered by AI
When AI helps your most annoying colleague get ahead by pretending an expertise they don’t have, who will be there to check their beautifully crafted nonsense?
‘We’ll fight’: Alex Waislitz on family battles and bad bets
The billionaire investor is mired in clashes with his ex-wife, future sister-in-law and developer Tim Gurner. But he’s up for it, he says.
This CEO gave up ultra-processed food. Here’s what happened
Ingenia’s John Carfi says he likes feeling hungry, and so chooses to fast from dinner “until whenever it is I choose to eat”.
Historic pay data dump gives money men nowhere to hide
Australia’s biggest payers have the biggest pay gaps. Nowhere is this more evident than in financial services, where the money men still dominate.
What these CEOs learnt about priorities from training with Thorpey
Swimming legend Ian Thorpe indirectly helped these CEOs at work while helping them move faster in the pool.