Yesterday
The best advice this boss was given: don’t let somebody else manage your career
Having a clear strategy around how you manage yourself, both in business and outside, is important, says Blackmores CEO Alastair Symington
- Cindy Yin and Sally Patten
This Month
This CEO chose a job because it sounded fun. Now he runs a $12b company
Light & Wonder CEO Matt Wilson was offered two graduate jobs. His father recommended he opt for the media company role but Wilson was already hooked on gaming.
- Sally Patten
The judge who made business better
When the economy opened up in the 1980s, Andrew Rogers helped Australia become a more commercially sophisticated country, NSW’s chief justice writes.
- Andrew Bell
Meet the CEO who doesn’t do Friday drinks
Karl Morris, CEO of stockbroking firm Ord Minnett and chairman of National Rugby League team Brisbane Broncos, is trying out intermittent fasting. But he is “no disciple”.
- Updated
- Sally Patten
The podcasts this top CEO always goes back to
When Aware Super CEO Deanne Stewart was offered the chance to run a business in the early 2000s in New York, she broke down and said, “No, I can’t do it.”
- Cindy Yin and Sally Patten
‘Deadset nightmare’: Why small business failures are soaring
MYOB CEO Paul Robson fears small businesses may not enjoy the soft landing tipped for the rest of the economy.
- Patrick Durkin
At ASIC, a noon showdown killed any chance of peace
Ex-ASIC chairman James Shipton desperately wanted to avoid the meeting with his deputy that was exposed on the front page of the Financial Review.
- Aaron Patrick, Ronald Mizen and Patrick Durkin
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
- BOSS
‘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
Lowitja O’Donoghue, ‘the greatest Aboriginal leader’
Indigenous trailblazer Lowitja O’Donoghue is being celebrated as a giant of modern Australia after her death at the weekend.
- Michael Pelly
- Opinion
- Leadership lessons
CEO succession needs a shake-up
It’s the most important job corporate boards have, and all too often they fail miserably.
- Beth Kowitt
The ‘zombie leadership’ ideas that refuse to die
Alexander Haslam wants you to join the Anti-Zombie Leadership Alliance – the fight against leadership myths that have been debunked but refuse to die.
- Euan Black
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
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
10 CEOs under the pump in 2024
Activist shareholders, grumpy regulators and politicians looking for someone to blame are likely to keep the heat on these leaders in the year ahead.
- James Thomson
Cameras on, no multitasking: meeting rules that boost productivity
AGL Energy renewables guru and BOSS Young Executive Naureen Alam works on ‘four Rs’ to manage the stress of her job.
- Tess Bennett
Why this Woolworths executive no longer brings a laptop to meetings
In our Summer Breakfast with the BOSS series, Andrew Cooper, head of transformation at Woolworths Metro, says ditching his laptop for an old-fashioned paper notebook has helped him become more productive in meetings.
- Updated
- Lois Maskiell
What does it mean to be Australian?
The Financial Review invited the PM, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, an Indigenous leader, a businesswoman and a mining billionaire to crack a drink and throw a few snags on a virtual grill.
- Patrick Durkin and Hans van Leeuwen
‘I misread the environment’: Woolworths boss on Australia Day
Woolworths, Cricket Australia and Tennis Australia have faced a public backlash for boycotting Australia Day, as Gerry Harvey bemoans a “mad, woke world” which is silencing business.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
Why this executive ditched networking dinners for ice baths
Domain customer head and BOSS Young Executive Angus Ferguson has a sauna and ice bath most mornings, and has started taking clients too.
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- Sally Patten
