How failed architect David Gonski became the chairman of everything
David Gonski has won the Lifetime Achievement Award winner in the inaugural Financial Review BOSS Director Awards.
David Gonski says directors need strong professional support and mentoring: “I sometimes wonder who directors talk to when they are in a hole.” Louie Douvis
David Gonski was 16 when he told his neurosurgeon father, Alexander, that he didn’t want to be a doctor. Gonski wanted to be an architect.
“If you asked my father, he expected I would be a medical practitioner, and I still remember breaking the news to him, when I was 16, that I wasn’t going to, and he wasn’t that happy about it,” he says.
Patrick DurkinBOSS deputy editorPatrick Durkin is Melbourne bureau chief and BOSS deputy editor. He writes on news, business and leadership. Connect with Patrick on Twitter. Email Patrick at pdurkin@afr.com
