Local NSW Premier Mike Baird resigns: “There is a strong personal cost that comes with public life” The NSW Premier Mike Baird will retire from parliament half-way through his government’s term.
Advice How to keep the top job longer than the average Australian CEO It is five years and two months since Marius Kloppers took over as CEO of Australia’s biggest listed company, BHP Billiton.
Advice Five lessons on decision-making from the Labor leadership spill Last week’s Labor leadership change has thrown light on some of the key behavioural biases at play in decision-making.
Advice The five biases that drive our decision-making As leaders we like to believe we ‘make’ decisions and that they’re rational.
Ed's Blog Time will not solve the ASX gender gap When the numbers are so low to begin with, it’s easy for progress on women in leadership to take a significant turn for the worse with just a couple of resignations.
Advice The art of being a leader: What is your leadership ideal? You’ve heard the term ‘a born leader’? Whilst leadership skills can be innate, there are skills and attributes that can be learnt and developed.
Advice Aspiring to a more senior role? Enhance your ‘executive presence’ ‘Executive presence’ plays a part in why people get promoted.
Advice Create a culture of collaboration An unproductive, stressed team is often fragmented, unmotivated and lacking direction with unhealthy thinking patterns that block effective collaboration.
Advice How I use humour to manage leadership challenges The recent experiences of Julia Gillard and Sophie Mirabella got me thinking about the way women in leadership roles can be treated and how they manage this treatment.
Ed's Blog Try to spot the women on the Forbes power list There are 71 people on Forbes‘ annual list of the most powerful people in the world released today; just six of them are women.
Ed's Blog Julia Gillard’s great career lesson for women: Resilience Julia Gillard is seriously tough.
