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Why the Carsales CEO doesn’t drive sports cars
The company started by Greg Roebuck in Melbourne’s Oakleigh in 1997 has grown to an $8.7 billion ASX 100 giant as the pandemic has supercharged car sales.
- Patrick Durkin
Why executives are getting more bonuses for hitting diversity targets
Such payments are becoming more common as companies increasingly recognise the value of greater inclusivity. But not everyone is happy about it.
- Euan Black
Why and how this property giant measures collaboration
Innovation is hardly ever one person coming up with a clever idea. But measuring how staff collaborate to the best effect isn’t easy.
- Sally Patten
The advice this boss would give his younger self
Zoran Bebic, managing director of engineering company Monadelphous, says his best tip is to be prepared to do anything, as he answers our CEO Q&A.
- Jenny Wiggins and Sally Patten
Top finance women drive ‘breakout period’ for CFOs as pay jumps 24pc
With Vicki Brady leading Telstra, Leah Weckert at Coles and Vanessa Hudson at Qantas, one in five top 100 companies have elevated their CFO to become CEO.
- Patrick Durkin
This Month
Meet the CEO in the race to set up a Formula One team
By the middle of next month Dicker Data founder, CEO and racing enthusiast David Dicker should know if his quest for his own Formula One team has been successful.
- Sally Patten
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- Workplace
Are you as burnt out as Mark McGowan?
It seems everyone – from the former West Australian premier to football coaches, CEOs and stockbrokers – is discussing work-life balance. Here are how some are handling it.
- Patrick Durkin
May
From accounts clerk to managing director of a $1b company
Zoran Bebic has worked at engineering company Monadelphous for 30 years - and he doesn’t hold an engineering degree.
- Jenny Wiggins
Pandemic grads love the office. But bosses say they lack one skill
Employers have strengthened graduate onboarding programs with more sessions on business basics such as email writing and business etiquette.
- Euan Black
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- Workplace culture
CBA orders staff back to the office
Commonwealth Bank chief Matt Comyn joins a growing push to call workers back to the office, telling his staff must be on site at least 50 per cent of the time.
- Patrick Durkin
How these professionals earn more than $10,000 a month on the side
BOSS speaks to five professionals who run businesses in their spare time.
- Euan Black and Sally Patten
Why this CEO likes hiring people whose careers have taken a hit
Nick Hamilton, chief executive of financial services company Challenger, has faced his own challenges. He answers our CEO Q&A.
- Sally Patten
This CEO wanted to be a pilot – now he runs a $4b investment company
Challenger chief executive Nick Hamilton was going to follow his father and take to the sky, but was acutely aware his dad had missed out on numerous family celebrations.
- Sally Patten
The Voice is on the agenda in boardrooms. Here’s what they’re thinking
Prominent Perth-based director and former WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt predicts many Australian companies will eventually publicly back the Indigenous referendum.
- Sally Patten
The CEO of this $1b company on the best career advice he has received
Andrew Reeves, chief executive of chicken producer Inghams, answers our CEO Q&A.
- Jemima Whyte
The CEO of this $5b company started out farming rabbits
Scott Wyatt has been with the same company – Viva and Shell before it – for more than three decades, but change is in the air he couldn’t be more excited.
- Colin Packham
Why the greenwashing crackdown means more green hushing
Tensions are rising over demands by investors, activists and the public for climate disclosure and the ability of firms and super funds to predict the future.
- Patrick Durkin
The surprisingly powerful phrase all leaders should be prepared to say
Saying “I don’t know” is the first step towards solving a problem and helps bosses build trust with their team.
- Euan Black
April
The CEO of this $1b company sold everything from make-up to chicken
Inghams chief executive Andrew Reeves’ first job out of university was selling beauty products.
- Jemima Whyte
Why investors want more control over companies’ climate plans
Firms may have to give shareholders an annual vote on their environmental strategies or risk protest votes against directors.
- Sally Patten
How does this CEO do it all? She doesn’t. She makes choices
Never be afraid to have someone who is more skilled than you in your team, says Accor Pacific boss Sarah Derry. She answers our chief executive Q&A.
- Sally Patten
This CEO juggled cocktails in a hotel. Now she runs one
In the early 1990s, Accor Pacific chief Sarah Derry arrived in Sydney from her home in Townsville and needed a job. She found one behind a bar and fell in love with hospitality.
- Fiona Carruthers
How ChatGPT will change these four industries
BOSS asks leaders from key sectors to predict the ways the headline-grabbing bot and other forms of generative artificial intelligence will affect their jobs.
- Euan Black
This CEO once sold encyclopaedias. Now he’s Forrest’s hydrogen guy
Fortescue Future Industries chief executive Mark Hutchinson says he learnt more from selling encyclopaedias than he ever did at university.
- Brad Thompson
Boards warn of further shocks to financial markets
Leading company directors are stress testing business models, imposing strict cost controls, tightening health checks on customers and suppliers, and meeting daily amid rising interest rates, the collapse of offshore banks and geopolitical tensions.
- Sally Patten
