“Changing the status quo is everyone’s responsibility, not through annual objectives, but through a shared understanding that we can’t deliver policies successfully in challenging times without a diverse leadership team to help us make more objective decisions and provide the resilience a fast-moving external environment demands.” Such insight and wisdom from Martin Donnelly, a UK Civil Servant, […]
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Patrick Durkin’s article in the AFR last week on David Gonski. We ‘know’ David from his various roles: he was the former Chairman of the ASX, is currently the Chancellor of University of NSW and was the former Chairman of the committee commissioned by Julia Gillard in 2010 to look at […]
To “hire outside the box”: a term used by people in Executive Search (amongst others) for when a business hires a candidate from outside their immediate industry. Leaders used to be much more open to the concept, realising the huge potential upside of hiring outside the box. Not only would the candidate have the necessary […]
I’ve come across International Women’s Day in March before, but I didn’t know that March 2014 is Women’s History Month until something landed in my inbox last week from Getty Images (who have produced the ‘Lean In Collection’ of images depicting women, girls & those supporting them). Let’s stay on-topic and talk about Women in […]