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‘I kept all my rejection letters’: Rise of the Australian-Indian CEOs
A growing number of Australia’s top business leaders are of South Asian heritage. They tell BOSS about their ambitions to learn and their hunger for success.
- 34 mins ago
- Patrick Durkin
How Helen Lynch broke the rules to lend to a future chief justice
The trailblazing banker has spent her career encouraging other businesswomen to have the courage to speak up and challenge the status quo.
- Joanne Gray
Champions of Change unveil 12 steps to boost women tech leaders
Telstra and Microsoft are leading the charge on a range of new commitments to promote female leadership in the IT sector, traditionally one of the most blokey industries.
- James Eyers
Why coming out made Hub24’s CEO a better leader
Andrew Alcock has presided over the investment administrator’s transformation from an obscure micro-cap to a sharemarket darling.
- Aleks Vickovich
- Opinion
- Chook Roast
KKR’s other big change ends governance flaw
The firm’s new CEOs will oversee the unwinding of its dual-class stock structure, amid a push to end the model that will arrive when Square swallows Afterpay.
- James Thomson
This Month
Should I do business with someone hit by harassment allegations?
Matt Beard, program director at Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership, answers your ethical dilemmas.
- Matt Beard
Meet the CEO who turns to the All Blacks for inspiration
Evolution boss Jake Klein, who aims to create the ‘world’s best gold company’, offers some key lessons gleaned from more than two decades in the industry.
- Sally Patten
Seven traps that could kill your executive career
You can’t control the market and you can’t control who your boss is or what your customers are doing. But you can control your team.
- Sally Patten
What business needs to know about the circular economy
Companies will change more than just their energy use if they want to reach their net zero targets.
- Tess Bennett and Sally Patten
September
One-third of executives suffer pay cut at the hand of directors
Eight companies paid short-term bonuses purely in equity last year, up from one the year before.
- Sally Patten
The mild-mannered retailer from Louisiana taking on Coles, Woolies
After losing market share to Woolworths, Coles and Aldi for 20 years, Metcash has never been in better shape and CEO Jeff Adams says being behind in online shopping is an advantage.
- Sue Mitchell
Bill Pollock: the world’s longest serving CEO
Bill Pollock was in business 20 years before the first email was ever sent.
- Jessica Sier
Top tips for success gleaned from leaders over 21 years of BOSS
Take time to think, learn to read people, document your week and keep learning are among the pieces of advice from Australia’s most successful business leaders.
- Sally Patten
They won the BOSS Young Executive awards. Here’s what happened next
As BOSS turns 21 this year, we take the opportunity to go back to six previous winners and find out how their careers have evolved.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
The entrepreneur who kept coins in a shed when cash really was king
Moonlight Cinema used to store coins in a safe, in a park shed. One night in 2000 someone broke into the shed and stole its contents – 5¢, 10¢, 20¢ and 50¢ coins.
- Sally Patten
Australia has the wherewithal to breed new corporate powerhouses
The absence of tech and dominance of banks and miners leaves the list of Australia’s biggest companies mostly unchanged since BOSS was launched 21 years ago.
- Richard Henderson
August
What bosses have learnt in 21 years of ‘quiet revolution’
In the year The Australian Financial Review turns 70, its offshoot BOSS celebrates its 21st birthday after launching as a magazine in 2000.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
How business turned out for a man who featured in BOSS 20 years ago
Entrepreneur Daniel Lavecky appeared in one of the early editions of BOSS. Now he’s helping us celebrate the magazine’s 21st birthday.
- Sally Patten
Why companies should track consumer understanding of net zero
As knowledge of the environmental policy increases, consumers are likely to put more pressure on companies to act responsibly, a survey shows.
- Sally Patten
Rio Tinto maps out career path for technical experts
Technical specialists often have to make a tough choice in their careers: continue to do what they love and settle for a more junior role or leave the science behind and climb the corporate ladder?
- Tess Bennett
Watch one less Netflix episode and take a micro course to get ahead
Daily five- to seven-minute doses are enough to brush up on skills – and could save your career as your role inevitably changes, says Hudson’s Simon Moylan.
- Sally Patten
Why this CEO eats out breakfast, lunch and dinner
Former PwC chief executive Luke Sayers has launched his own consultancy and is networking over three meals a day.
- Patrick Durkin
One expert’s top five predictions for the future of work
Climate literacy could become a core part of how everyone does their work and how everyone understands the work they may be doing, says futurist Reanna Browne.
- Sally Patten
Companies will reskill staff better ‘or they won’t exist’: Atlassian
Soft skills are hard to discover. ‘When you find someone with them, you think: “I’m never going to let you go,“’ says the tech company’s futurist, Dom Price.
- Sally Patten
It may not be long before the office mail room is on the top floor
If you reckon workplace innovations such as the genomic testing of buildings and the use of moss to determine air quality sound fanciful, think again.
- Sally Patten
