How to parent like a chief executive

Technology has proved more a blessing than a curse in keeping close to family for busy CEOs.

Simon Evans

Updated Sep 6, 2014 – 2.46am, first published at 2.44am

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Mick McCormack , chief executive of the $6.5 billion pipelines and infrastructure company APA Group , has the perfect antidote for a ferocious week in Sydney running the corporate giant.

He returns to the family property near Warwick in Queensland most weekends, loads up on ammunition and with two sons, Joe, 17, and George, 14, heads out to shoot wild rabbits and hares in the dead of night, by the glare of a spotlight.