On the steps of the Lorna Jane headquarters, company employees dressed head-to-toe in the active... more
The whole world, it seems, is busy downloading apps. Australians love them and they also have a... more
It's not a phrase you hear often these days: “I see my job as a mission.” At... more
One of the first things Peter Burke had to do after arriving in Jos, Nigeria, was to learn how to... more
Ponting was earmarked at just 12 as a cricketer of talent. At 15 he was plucked from... more
A whistleblower, a champion horse trainer, a brewer, an inventor, a lord and a dame – CPA Congress had it all this year and was greeted with enthusiasm by delegates from Auckland to Perth and Singapore. More than 10,000 people attended... read more
These days Alan Cransberg plays for high stakes as chairman and managing director of Alcoa of Australia. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he also played for keeps in 115 games for the Swan Districts Football Club in the West Australian Football... read more
Black Caviar is one of the most successful and athletic horses to have ever thundered along a racetrack. At the time of writing, the statuesque mare had won 22 races from 22 starts and was considered the world’s greatest racehorse of... read more
By now the facts are well-known: Michael Woodford, the Liverpool-born president and CEO of Japanese optical and camera company Olympus, worked his way up the company ladder over the course of 30 years before he became the first gaijin (foreigner)... read more
Ron Allum is living proof that if you do what you love — and do it well — then success will almost certainly follow. By combining a love of diving with a talent for innovative solutions to novel engineering problems, Allum has built a... read more
WOULD HE DO IT AGAIN? Of course he would, says Michael Woodford, the former CEO of Japanese optics group Olympus, who blew the whistle on a staggering US$1.7 billion fraud and was then sensationally sacked by the men he accused of... read more
When I had my first two children I was a partner in a mid-sized practice. That was a really tough period. I tried to give everything the balance that it needed. I had a nanny at home, but I was expressing milk all day to feed the baby. That was... read more
For some people, the idea of getting up in front of a room full of colleagues is daunting, terrifying even; for others it’s something that can be done in their sleep. So, what makes an effective communicator? According to NIDA Corporate... read more
As Coopers gains more of the Australian beer market with a much smaller marketing budget than larger breweries, it is not by luck that it has carved out a substantial Australia-wide premium beer market share. In South Australia, its home... read more
Lord Norman Lamont was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the cabinet of British Prime Minister John Major from 1990 to 1993 and served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Margaret Thatcher. A Conservative member of parliament for 25 years, he... read more
When the novelist Jack Kerouac started wandering across the US in the 1940s, he had adventure in mind. “Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to... read more
Will Whitehorn, for 25 years a top executive in Britain’s Virgin Group, was almost invariably described as Richard Branson’s right-hand man. Others, notably Tom Bower in his book Branson, were less flattering, calling him... read more
