Advice

Alex Brooks knows the value of employee trust: the Kidspot executive editor’s direct reports all work from home, while she answers to a head office in Melbourne and a CEO in Texas.

There’s a follow-up and there’s being a pest.

We know that we need to act on gender diversity.

There isn’t just one way to be a leader according to former aid worker, business leader and author of A Life Half Lived, Andrew MacLeod.

Have you ever worried about speaking up in meetings or held back supporting an idea because you were afraid of how people might react? If you have, chances are this is harming your career and your personal life.

Senior project manager Polly Bernard surveys her desk.

Most of us are familiar with those nagging thoughts that tell us we are not good enough, that cast doubt on our goals and undermine our accomplishments.

This is an edited version of a two-part series, first published in 2015.

One of Australia’s richest and most powerful men once had a simple strategy when dealing with people in business.

Leadership is not just about setting the example and setting the course.

Yesterday, we published this edited extract from the career book Women Who Seize The Moment on why we should back ourselves, first.

I can’t stop thinking about the words of Jim Dator, an International Futurist from the Centre of Future Studies, University of Hawaii who I heard speak several years ago.