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If anything, otroverts are too attuned to the world around them.

Feel like you never belong? You may be an otrovert

If you secretly feel like an outsider, feel awkward in groups and uneasy in public, you might be a personality type defined by a sense of “non-belonging”.

This Month

Australia’s 50 Richest Bosses revealed

The Chemist Warehouse and Guzman y Gomez floats, as well as a change in intergenerational wealth, are creating a new wave of wealthy leaders.

Linda Yaccarino speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with other social media platform heads on Capitol Hill last year.

‘Riding the tiger’: Why Linda Yaccarino had to leave Elon Musk’s X

Tasked with bringing back advertising to a platform whose owner had told brands who did not spend with them to “go f--- themselves”, she was set up to fail.

June

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When your chatbot makes titanic mistakes

In the right hands, artificial intelligence can clearly be a force for great good. It’s just that I keep coming across people who know how dire it can be.

Virgin Australia shares took off on the first day of trading on the ASX.

Virgin’s comeback is a lesson on managing executive energy

Strategy alone doesn’t supercharge a corporate transformation, it takes a leader who drives change while quietly building reserves for whatever tomorrow brings.

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Graeme Samuel, professor at Monash Business School, said the company director course run by AICD is about ticking a box.

Samuel: A fork in the eye is less painful than AICD director’s course

Former competition watchdog chief Graeme Samuel says executives would learn more about governance reading APRA’s report on CBA than doing the company directors course.

Donald Trump has fuelled the backlash against DEI and ESG.

Managing the S in ESG is crucial to energy transition success

This isn’t about virtue-signalling or a box-ticking exercise. It is fundamental to ensuring long-term resilience and retaining a social licence.

Gabriel Radzyminski, founder & chief Investment Officer, Sandon Capital.

Investors demand greater voice on ASX governance review

The review needs to give investors a greater say in how the regime is tied to company profits, Sandon Capital founder Gabriel Radzyminski says.

Data centres are power hungry.

Big super warned that AI is a carbon ‘time bomb’

Corporate Australia has taken to artificial intelligence with zeal but not enough attention is given to the emissions it creates, says the Australia Institute.

Debby Blakey, CEO, HESTA
Deborah Caudle, Chief Executive Climate Change & Sustainability, BlueScope, David Gillespie, Managing Director, Jemena
Andrew McKellar, CEO, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Sally Patten, BOSS Editor, The Australian Financial Review Photo by Renee Nowytarger 17/06/25

‘No need for ESG any more’: Business doubles down on bottom line

Investors and CEOs say non-financial issues remain a key risk for businesses, but we may have outgrown the phrase ‘environmental, social, governance’.

Trump capitalised on the discontent over ESG and DEI throughout his campaign and has fully weaponised it in his second term.

Why ESG and DEI could be the next big business risk

The instinctive reaction to the ESG and DEI “vibe shift” in the US was to persist, defend the status quo, and write off what was happening over there as an isolated phenomenon.

Rio Tinto’s new leadership team will need to confront its Juukan Gorge failings.

What RoboDebt, Hayne and Rio Tinto tell us about ESG’s limits

The reason today’s senior executives are ‘shy’ about ESG is that their efforts have not prevented major scandals.

Helia chief executive Pauline Blight-Johnston is departing the lenders mortgage insurance company.

Helia reviewed ‘circumstances’ of CEO’s share sale before departure

Helia, formerly known as Genworth, quietly investigated its CEO Pauline Blight-Johnston over the sale of shares before the loss of a major contract and her resignation.

May

Businessman David Gonski says that layers of regulation unduly burden directors with liability, causing boardroom discussions to prioritise governance over critical strategic matters that improve operational performance and enhance returns for shareholders.

Director Awards underline importance of greater boardroom diversity

Homogeneity undermines accountability, stifles directors’ willingness to ask management the hard questions, and causes boards to succumb to mere conformity.

‘Nowhere to hide’: Why more CEOs are fronting videos

Executives are increasingly filming themselves for social media as a way to talk directly to staff, customers and shareholders.

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this year despite  the tax scandal.

The PwC scandal was bad, the cover-up is worse

The early conclusion to what was already a dubious exercise in scrutiny is exactly what we’ve come to expect.

Jingmin Qian, director IPH.

Board diversity: ‘What we’re doing is not working’

Fewer directors with Chinese or Indian backgrounds sit on large listed company boards than in 2017, while the number of Indigenous or openly gay directors is tiny.

Research by recruitment firm Robert Half indicated a rising trend in Australian employers wanting a five-day in-office work week.

Bosses continue to push 5-day-office edict

Former opposition leader Peter Dutton’s spectacular fail on return-to-office mandates hasn’t stopped companies from enforcing workers back full-time.

April

Not enough men working in education is holding back the sector’s productivity, just as much as the lack of women in mining does.

‘We’re not allocating talent’ and that makes us all poorer

Not enough men working in education is holding back the sector’s productivity, just as much as the lack of women in mining does.

March

The role has been rebranded by a world that demands leadership without error and impact without controversy, while being visible, strong, caring, vulnerable and compassionate.

Why no one wants to be a CEO any more

Burnout, scrutiny and liability have turned the top job toxic, and rising stars are opting out.

Yasmin Allen says sitting on large founder-led boards is less interesting if there is no robust discussion.

Some founders regard directors as ‘something to be tolerated’

The scandals that have rocked high-profile founder led companies such as WiseTech and Mineral Resources are a wake-up call for all board members to conduct thorough due diligence, say top directors.

Corporate Australia did itself no favours by campaigning so actively in support of the Yes vote.

Qantas chairman says business should not be woke or anti-woke

Corporate Australia should pick its battles carefully. However, mainstream DEI and ESG initiatives have largely proved to add value to companies.

Board diversity should not be about ticking boxes to include “every possible minority group” says John Mullen.

Mullen is on the money on genuine board diversity

The right way forward is a proactive approach to genuine diversity that would rightly reject performative box-ticking.

Qantas chairman John Mullen at home in Terrey Hills, Sydney, ahead of his speech to the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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.

The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. The tech giant made a point of sharing its desirable work environments.

From Death Star to Raccoon Feet: Have meeting room names gone too far?

Creative titles are now an inescapable – but not always funny – part of work life. The practice that grew from reimagining the office in the 1990s may need a rethink.

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