This Month
Star chef Matt Moran reveals his dinner party secrets – and pet hates
At age 15, Matt Moran dropped out of school and learnt to cook. Along the way, he has learned how to run a business, manage people and stay sane.
- Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
What every manager can learn from Boeing’s strife
The flight path is depressingly familiar as a succession of its leaders, in thrall to Jack Welch’s GE management teachings, dismantled a once-great plane maker.
- Peter Robison
Why AGL chairman Patricia McKenzie couldn’t get a job in a law firm
She almost didn’t take up legal studies in the first place, but didn’t expect to find job hunting so difficult.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
NAB’s new boss just managed to do what most CEOs can’t
Australian corporate history is riddled with examples of passed-over CEO candidates exiting. But NAB has just bucked the trend.
- Updated
- James Thomson
NAB’s new chief executive shuffles leadership team, promotes rival
Rachel Slade, who was overlooked for the top job in favour of Andrew Irvine, will run the pre-eminent business banking division. Ana Marinkovic will run retail.
- James Eyers
Why this CEO packs five days’ worth of work into four days
Lendlease Australia chief executive Dale Connor lives in Brisbane but spends his workweek in the property company’s Sydney office.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Jamie Dimon reveals three risks – and his leadership secret
We extracted the big lessons for investors and leaders from the JPMorgan CEO’s 27,000-word letter to shareholders.
- Updated
- James Thomson
Women of Influence share their tips for young female leaders today
Past winners of The Australian Financial Review’s long-standing and much-loved program give advice before it returns this year as Women in Leadership.
The advice that helped land HESTA CEO Debby Blakey the top job
HESTA chief Debby Blakey talks about how maths helps her to make decisions, how a key piece of advice from a mentor helped her land the top job, and why she likes 42-minute meetings.
- Updated
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan
- Opinion
- Governance
Why boards need their strategy captured on one page
Good governance is about strategy and judgment, not compliance and process. How do boards get those things to the fore?
- Catherine Livingstone
March
The two pieces of advice that changed Gina Cass-Gottlieb’s life
The first was from pioneering lawyer Dame Roma Mitchell, and the second was from High Court chief justice Sir Garfield Barwick.
- Ronald Mizen
Why this CEO is happy to admit he is ‘not particularly smart’
Intrepid Travel chief James Thornton says he did “OK” at school and isn’t that smart. But he was CEO by the age of 35.
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan
CBA’s business bank boss explains why ‘saffers’ can be good CEOs
Mike Vacy-Lyle says his South African upbringing has instilled a can-do attitude and the confidence to take on any competition.
- James Eyers
Slash nine-year terms, end gender box-ticking: Livingstone
Catherine Livingstone has called for six-year terms for directors to help refresh boardrooms and urged a focus on diversity beyond the usual box-ticking metrics such as gender.
- Patrick Durkin and Hannah Wootton
Best career advice? ‘Get some feathers on your wings’
Damien Nicks, the chief executive of giant electricity and gas supplier AGL Energy, answers our CEO Q&A.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
How this CEO cuts hour-long meetings to just five minutes
Justin Graham of advertising firm M&C Saatchi also says he wants to compete on Survivor, but suspects he might be thrown off the reality TV show early.
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan
Musk says his ketamine prescription is in investors’ best interests
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has told former CNN anchor Don Lemon that using the drug alleviates periods of low mood, and “what matters is execution”.
- Daniel Zuidijk
Why staff are job hunting more than ever before
The high cost of living has generated rising employee fears about job security and prompted record numbers of people to consider changing jobs, new data shows.
- Patrick Durkin
Why we should revisit the dramas of postwar France
Author Julian Jackson says French history over the last century is full of thrills and spills that have fresh relevance in an era of tawdry politics.
- Andrew Clark
How Robin Khuda went from near-bankruptcy to creating a $14b titan
The AirTrunk founder was forced to go into his superannuation funds to keep the data centre giant running before it eventually found success.
- Campbell Kwan
