This Month
- Opinion
- Best places to work
No amount of leave offerings will compensate for poor leadership
Companies can have all the flexible and hybrid work arrangements and offer all the leave entitlements under the sun, but if their leaders are poor at leading, they will count for naught.
- Sally Patten
February
How to manage staff who work from home
Managing staff who work partly, or mostly, at home is no mean feat. Senior business leaders reveal how they do it.
- Sally Patten
December 2023
Good at tech, bad with people: Is Gen Z getting a bad rap?
They are the cohort profoundly touched by the pandemic and questioning the value of so-so jobs. But are they really that different from other generations?
- Euan Black
November 2023
Feel overworked and underpaid? You’re not the only one
Insufficient recognition, poor change management and inappropriate workloads are the biggest risks for employee wellbeing, a study has found.
- Euan Black
Political correctness is too much for the ‘exhausted majority’
You should concentrate on how you say things rather than walking on eggshells for fear of offending someone by what you say.
- Peter Quarry
August 2023
Gen Z aren’t lazy. They just don’t want to ‘live to work’
More and more employees are seeking work-life balance. And Gen Z workers are leading the charge.
- Euan Black
June 2022
Does coaching make you a better boss?
Searches for such training on Google have increased 170 per cent in the past five years. Here’s why more leaders are turning to it.
- Natasha Boddy
- Exclusive
- Workplace culture
One in four people work with a bad apple. Is it you?
One in four workers think they have a bad apple on their team – and more than one in 10 say it is their manager.
- Natasha Boddy
May 2022
How Ross McEwan is turning around National Australia Bank
The bank chief executive believes slick software is a tool to help human bankers better support customers, not as an end in itself.
- James Eyers and Ayesha de Kretser
January 2022
Five performance tips from a rugby legend
Eddie Jones, coach of the English rugby team and a former Wallabies coach, says you should aim to improve three things every three months.
- Updated
- Sally Patten
September 2021
- Exclusive
- Funding
Software that solves workplace whinges raises $14.5m
Kiwi-founded Joyous is killing the staff survey, raising capital as organisations take up its software, which enables conversations between employees and management.
- Jessica Sier
May 2021
- Exclusive
- Mike Tilley
Tilley’s pipe dream ends in frozen company
Tubi is an unusual failure for Latitude chairman Mike Tilley, who says it was humbling trying to build a manufacturer that would make mining cheaper.
- Aaron Patrick
What I learnt from being the Rolling Stones’ doctor
As a cardiology student in the early 2000s, Jason Kovacic suddenly found himself as the medic for the legendary rock band’s tour.
- Sally Patten
How to start thinking like a CEO
Would-be chief executive officers need to start broadening their horizons and gathering the best possible people around them.
- Sally Patten
Why companies need to become more like soccer teams
The shift away from hierarchies towards networks is the most important cultural shift of the past 50 years, argues renowned author Malcolm Gladwell.
- Sally Patten
February 2021
Is your boss a gaslighter, ghost or seagull? How to ‘manage up’
Most people think of managing as a top-down process, but you also “manage” your boss, whether you realise it or not.
- Chris Taylor
January 2021
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
What business learnt in the time of coronavirus
Most chief executives are preparing for the volatility of 2020 to continue even if the global economy starts to recover.
- Andrew Hill
June 2020
Want to be a good boss? Ask your team about their weekend
Leaders who make an effort to form meaningful relationships with their teams will be rewarded with a happier workforce.
- Sally Patten
April 2020
Can bosses still do the decent thing in a crippling crisis?
The new CEO-authored book 'Good Company' offers a timely manual for maintaining values and decency as the pandemic piles on the pressure.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Analysis
- Work in the shutdown
Top 10 rules for keeping your remote staff sane
COVID-19 has created a quandary for employers who are struggling with how to manage staff from a distance. Here are some golden rules to follow.
- Natasha Boddy and Hannah Wootton
