I have a question that I keep asking myself: Why are some workplaces committed to being great, while others are just plain awful – is it j…
I have a question that I keep asking myself: Why are some workplaces committed to being great, while others are just plain awful – is it j…
Things are looking up, according to the chief financial officers of 5,000 Australian mid-market firms surveyed in a new report and index of …
The numbers are breath-taking. The 1,900 jobs to go at Fairfax Media, announced last week, represents almost about a fifth of the total work…
One of the inescapable facts of the workplace is that you have to work and interact with other people. We are constantly being pushed to…
This week, the Labor Government is likely to publicly release its review of the contentious Fair Work Act 2009. For leading companies, it ca…
As John Story packed his desk at Echo Entertainment group, a casualty of James Packer’s campaign for control, Genting Group quietly bought…
Do you know a hobbyhorse jockey? Someone who won’t shut up about their little area of expertise, and thinks it relates to everything you p…
We all know the pain of arriving to work in the morning to find hundreds of new emails pouring into your inbox, and how annoying it is to le…
Cost cutting when your costs get too large to handle is an eminently sensible, coherent thing to do in tough times. But while cost cutting c…
The group buying Catch of the Day stable doesn’t seem fazed by the doom and gloom in the local retail sector. Its founder and CEO, Gabb…
This article first appeared on June 16, 2011. The idea of writing a diary or journal possibly isn’t attractive to too many chief execut…
Myer chief Bernie Brooks says times are as tough as he’s seen them, yesterday describing retail in Australia as a “tale of woe”. Going…
