leadership

An unproductive, stressed team is often fragmented, unmotivated and lacking direction with unhealthy thinking patterns that block effective collaboration.

I’m the youngest of three children.

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.

There are 71 people on Forbes‘ annual list of the most powerful people in the world released today; just six of them are women.

Julia Gillard is seriously tough.

Accounts in the media over the past week explain, or rather rationalise, the downfall of our first female Prime Minister.

Labor’s new deputy leader in the senate, Senator Jacinta Collins, is an example of a woman who knows an opportunity when she sees one and the need to put her hand up to grab it.

When thinking about starting a family in line with managing a career, it’s easy to believe the optimal thing to do is to get on the path to leadership before giving the family a go.

Just 16 months into her five-year tenure as our first ever full-time Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Helen Szoke has announced she’s leaving the post in order to take up the role of Chief Executive with Oxfam.

Toro Energy appears have achieved a rare accomplishment with the announcement of a new female chief executive.

A pipeline of female talent is available for board positions, but may appear narrower than it actually is due to traditional ideas of what a “board ready” candidate actually looks like.

The column that I wrote last week detailing a friend’s stay or leave dilemma made mention of the impact that skilfully managing up had on a person’s promotional prospects.