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How Microsoft, Lendlease and Virgin changed their culture
Here are key takeaways from The Australian Financial Review Workforce Summit.
- Patrick Durkin and Sally Patten
Five tips to manage your Gen Z workers
Knowing what these young employees want is one thing. Actually managing them – and trying to retain them – is quite another.
- Sally Patten
More staff expected back in office: Lendlease, Seek, SBS chairmen
Senior directors are predicting an increase in office attendance the coming months as benefits of spending time in the workplace increase for workers.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
- Exclusive
- Governance
‘Cuts to follow hiring freeze’: directors warn on job market shake-out
Leading company directors are predicting a shake-out in the job market this year as wages and price pressures bite and business looks to make cost savings.
- Patrick Durkin and Sally Patten
How these company bosses handled their cancer diagnoses
These bosses know all too well what King Charles is going through, having been given their own confronting news.
- Sally Patten
This Month
HR bosses reveal this year’s biggest people problems
The HR bosses of six of our biggest companies – BHP, ANZ, Stockland, Lendlease, Medibank and Woodside – reveal their biggest issues for 2024.
- Euan Black, Patrick Durkin and Sally Patten
January
The best piece of advice the CEO of this $1.5b company was given
Drew O’Malley, chief executive of Collins Foods, operator of KFC fast food outlets, answers our CEO Q&A.
- Sally Patten
Nine CEOs reveal their favourite productivity hacks
Removing social media apps, reducing the length of meetings, listening to podcasts at faster speeds, and ChatGPT are among the tools chief executives use to get more out of their day.
- Updated
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
Walking, riding, sailing to CEOs’ favourite holiday spots
Leading chief executives worked hard in 2023, but they also discovered some places off the beaten track to get away from it all.
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
Meet the CEOs addicted to Sony headphones – and mandolines
A humble kitchen utensil made the grade in the BOSS team’s conversations with nine leaders about the gadgets they can’t live without.
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
If you want a skilled workforce, go easy on hiring contractors
Employers who automatically hire contractors to plug their skills gaps risk being left with a redundant workforce, says HR expert Alex Badenoch.
- Sally Patten
The TV shows these CEOs couldn’t stop streaming in 2023
The Bear, Beckham, Beef and a gay coming of age series were among business leaders’ favourite streaming shows of 2023.
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
How these top CEOs stay fit and healthy
From a returned ballerina, to a marathon-running CEO and an executive yogi, nine leaders tell the BOSS team about their daily routines.
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
December 2023
This CEO of a $6b company was told he ‘could do better’ at school
Whitehaven chief Paul Flynn may not have been an enthusiastic student, but he learnt to debate around the kitchen table with his parents and eight siblings.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Chook Roast
Drumstick Awards: Five biggest corporate stuff-ups of 2023
It’s been a golden year for corporate scandals. But one company has outshone the rest, taking home the inaugural Triple Drumstick.
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- Executive pay
Australia’s 50 highest-paid CEOs in 2023
Despite topping the pay ranks, Macquarie Group’s Shemara Wikramanayake is just one of two women on the list.
- Patrick Durkin
November 2023
Australia’s top corporate givers revealed
Woolworths, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and health insurer NIB were among the companies to record a surge in philanthropy in 2023.
- Sally Patten
For Domino’s CEO, pepperoni and a Tarantino movie hard to beat
Domino’s CEO Don Meij says investors expect perfection from large ASX companies, as he regroups and avoids becoming ‘lost in the past’.
- Simon Evans
The lucrative perks employees fail to exploit
Major companies reveal staff neglect to take advantage of these employee benefits.
- Euan Black
This CEO was once told he wasn’t making enough mistakes
Renato Mota, the chief executive of Insignia Financial, talks about embracing risk and the importance of allowing the mind to wander.
- Sally Patten
My ‘empathy’ for Qantas after fight to death with Joyce: ex-Virgin CEO
Pacific National CEO Paul Scurrah says the demise of Virgin Australia taught him the purpose of a CEO.
- Kylar Loussikian
These are the big lessons from the Optus outage
Don’t be slow to respond, explain yourself clearly, don’t try to fake concern and war-game a response when things are quiet.
- Patrick Durkin
Five secrets to delivering the perfect pitch
Australia’s best stock pickers have just eight minutes to convince the country’s top money managers they have found an investment gem that the market has overlooked.
- Patrick Durkin
What this CEO learnt from stepping away from his business
Adam Schwab, chief executive of Luxury Escapes, says terminating staff who are not right for the business is critical to a company’s success.
- Sally Patten
A pet crocodile is the least interesting thing about this CEO
ERA chief Brad Welsh has worked in child protection services, the Prime Minister’s Office and shares a house with a baby croc.
- Peter Ker
