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Ampol CEO charges up for the future

Just a year into a job that has presented myriad challenges, Matt Halliday says tomorrow’s petrol station will be more like a ‘distributor of energy’.

  • Patrick Durkin and Angela Macdonald-Smith

Where companies go wrong with Indigenous recruitment

Employers need to stop cherry-picking First Nations students from universities if they want to meet their Aboriginal recruitment targets.

  • Sally Patten

Could your employer convince you to hand over your health data?

Qauntium CEO Adam Driussi is interested in the way data analytics can be used to alter human behaviour.

  • Sally Patten

COVID-19 is sapping the country’s energy, Telstra chairman says

Rolling lockdowns will make it harder for board members to visit sites and spend face-to-face time with management and staff, according to senior directors.

  • Sally Patten

BOSS Young Executives reveal the seven tips that stuck with them

Even apparently simple career advice has left a big impression on these up-and-coming leaders. Here are their best nuggets of wisdom.

  • Sally Patten
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June

Three tips for having difficult conversations

Whether you’re having a tough talk or making or communicating a decision, timing plays an important role in ensuring such interactions go as well as possible.

  • Stuart Taylor

Bubs CEO Kristy Carr on meeting Jack Ma and navigating China

Bubs believes the Chinese daigou retail channel will return but nevertheless it is redirecting investment in Asia to meet changing consumer habits.

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  • Carrie LaFrenz

IKEA remodels following ‘leap into the future’

The retailer is planning one of the largest shake-ups to its business model yet, including switching from warehouse destination stores to smaller city shops.

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  • Patrick Durkin

Nine strategies for CEO success

BOSS asks four of the country’s top executive coaches and advisers, who work behind the scenes for ASX 100 leaders, their top tips for attaining success.

  • Sally Patten

Tech unicorn Envato cools IPO talk after restructure

Rich Listers Collis and Cyan Ta’eed will appoint external independent directors after bringing on a new CEO, as they set the company up to thrive without them.

  • Sally Patten
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IOOF’s CEO in driver’s seat as big banks flee wealth scene

As a young analyst, Renato Mota played a role in helping the banks enter wealth management. Now, he is doing more than anyone in Australia to help them get out.

  • Aleks Vickovich

May

Lombardo’s golden dream for Lendlease

Tony Lombardo helped drive Lendlease’s success around the world for the past decade. But has the pandemic blown apart the investment thesis on which Lendlease’s earnings depend?

  • Nick Lenaghan

Four tips on what women can do to enter (and stay in) the tech sector

The scale of the problem around the lack of gender diversity in technology means companies and female candidates must act.

  • Sally Patten

How the pandemic changed ResMed boss Mick Farrell

In a departure from most high-powered CEOs, Farrell’s job running the sleep disorder and digital health giant is no longer his first priority at all costs.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

Dylan Alcott isn’t here to win grand slams

The wheelchair tennis champion spearheads a little-known burgeoning business empire focused on disability services.

  • Myriam Robin

Koczkar’s plan for a fitter, healthier Medibank

New CEO David Koczkar plans to evolve the former government-owned enterprise from health insurer to healthcare business.

  • Patrick Durkin

What I learnt from being the Rolling Stones’ doctor

As a cardiology student in the early 2000s, Jason Kovacic suddenly found himself as the medic for the legendary rock band’s tour.

  • Sally Patten

Wylie predicts profound shift in capital markets

With a rise in superannuation on the horizon, John Wylie expects that funds in his Tanarra Capital will double to more than $4 billion.

  • Patrick Durkin

How to make the right decision

The vast majority of ethical dilemmas do not relate to large scale fraud or stealing. They are dilemmas we all face daily in the course of our work.

  • Vanessa Pigrum

How to start thinking like a CEO

Would-be chief executive officers need to start broadening their horizons and gathering the best possible people around them.

  • Sally Patten
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April

Young gun directors shake up the boardroom

BOSS speaks to five next gen directors about their views on technology, climate change, sustainability, leadership and accountability.

  • Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin

Six start-ups you should know about

BOSS speaks to young digital innovators about the products and services they are developing that should be on the radar of the big end of town.   

  • Sally Patten and Yolanda Redrup

AMP’s handling of CEO’s resignation ‘disgraceful’

Wilson Asset Management founder Geoff Wilson says the lack of transparency around the exit of Francesco De Ferrari was gob-smacking.

  • Sally Patten

Meet the CEO who has a thing about croissants

Australian Ballet CEO Libby Christie stops for 10 minutes at Lune Cafe, in Melbourne, for a flat white and a croissant, on her way to work.

  • Sally Patten

The real cost of losing a star performer

Losing a high-potential employee can cost a business two to three times the departing staffer's annual salary.

  • Natasha Boddy