“As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name Of The Wind A wonderful jumble and organisation of letters creates a single word. A single word; one that can create power, strength of focus, encapsulate
Last week I was afforded an enormous privilege by way of the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation. That privilege? Meeting former Prime Minister, author, champion of equity, university professor, and perhaps most of all, a person content in their own skin – and owning their own space – Julia Gillard. It was clearly
Embrace diversity, breed new thinking, collaborate, allow the crazy ideas to breathe and create those often insane divergent moments because this is the only way we are ever going to create the future we dream of right here and now before it becomes a present that passes us by. It’s almost as if the repeat
Anyone who writes for their business understands how amazing it feels when someone comments in a positive way on a blog post, or shares out an article. It’s still wonderful to me after over four years’ worth of weekly blog posts – in other words, approximately two hundred unique posts, just for this platform alone
The world is becoming increasingly competitive – we can see, feel, almost taste it every day in our own business areas and enterprises. We have the experts telling us how volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous the world it is – and hell yeah, it is. The business of busyness is speeding up as we play
Connecting, collaborating, communicating. All great words – but they do require us to use another ‘c’ word – courage. They require us to be brave, to step up and drive change through our influential actions and conversations. It still surprises me how many of us put networking in the box which has been labelled in
Illinois-born audit chief Cindy Hook has been elected Deloitte Australia’s new chief executive, making her the first woman in the nation’s history to lead a big four accounting firm. Ms Hook, who transferred from Deloitte in the US five years ago, was elected by the firm’s partnership with a 97 per cent majority in a week-long
Outgoing Westpac boss Gail Kelly is in the running to become the first Australian and the first woman to win the 2014 Morningstar chief executive of the year award outright after being named as a finalist. If successful, she would join the likes of legendary investor Warren Buffet as the best in business. The winner
According to the numbers, companies with women at the top make more money. An analysis from Fortune showed that Fortune 1000 companies with female CEOs record better stock market returns than those with male CEOs. Only 51 of the Fortune 1000 companies are run by women. "Fortune 1000 companies with female chiefs outperformed the S&P 500 index
A new report traces the evolution of the chief executive officer role over the past century, but also looks ahead 25 years to see what the CEO of 2040 will look like. Increasingly the leaders of 25 years hence will be women, and regardless of gender they will be highly educated, have accumulated strong experience
