It's no secret that women comprise the fastest growing cohort of start-up entrepreneurs. Why? Well, there's lots of reasons but let's start with two of the obvious: The first is that the 9-5 routine is not working for women. The traditional workplace with its 9-5pm (or more likely 8-6pm) structure doesn't suit a lot of
TASMANIA’S first female premier has called on the State Government to include a 50 per cent quota in a new strategy to get more women on to government boards. Labor MP and former premier Lara Giddings In line with its 365-day to-do list, the Liberals will tomorrow release a five-year Women on Boards strategy. There are
It’s a myth that women don’t help other women: mentoring and sponsoring play a huge role in the modern workplace Despite recent reports to the contrary, the myth of the queen bee who fails to help other women in the workplace continues to resurface. I’ve had no experience of other women, or indeed men,
KPMG Australia CEO Gary Wingrove (R) and new partner Courtney West (L), who is going on maternity leave next month. KPMG Australia on Monday named a firm-record 51 new partners for 2015. Thirty-seven per cent of those appointments went to women, a record number of whom will either be on maternity leave or
Leaders today are faced with challenges that have not been witnessed before, and these challenges will only escalate in the next 10-20 years. Leadership consultancy DDI groups these challenges into four key categories: VUCA. Volatility Anticipating and reacting to the nature and speed of change Uncertainty Acting decisively without 100% clear direction and certainty Complexity
KPMG just released their Women's Leadership Study which found that while the majority of women want to hold leadership positions many find it difficult to envision themselves as leaders. According to their survey of more than 3,000 professional and college women in the United States, 6 in 10 women said they aspire to be a
Mike Henry was head of marketing for BHP Billiton in Singapore when he realised he had made a mistake. Henry, who now runs BHP Coal was under pressure to cut costs and raise efficiency. A staff member returning from maternity leave had asked to return to her previous role part time and work some of
No women are in charge of any of the top New Zealand companies in the Business Herald's executive pay survey. Only one woman, former Summerset Group chief executive Norah Barlow, made this year's pay rankings and she retired from that position in April 2014. The pay survey examines the remuneration of the heads of
Corporate leaders need to set the right tone from the top if female representation at the upper levels of management is going to be addressed – both in financial services and elsewhere. This was one of the messages to come from Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Group Executive, Wealth Management, Annabel Spring, as she discussed
More and more companies are moving away from top-down hierarchies and toward more collaborative models. In what might be the buzziest example in recent memory, Zappos ditched managers altogether, as part of their high-profile transition to Holacracy, an alternative model structured around "self-management." But while Zappos may be extreme, it's hardly alone. Not every company is ditching
