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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2013
1944 - 2013
It is with great sadness that the Australian Institute of Company Directors learnt of the passing of its chairman, James Strong AO FAICD, last month.
Strong, who was also chairman of Kathmandu Holdings and a director of Qantas Airways, died aged 68 in Sydney on 3 March due to lun...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2013
Fiona Baron discovers that serving on a professional services firm’s board is all about leading by consensus and influence, rather than relying on authority or positional power.
Professional services firms are overwhelmingly about partnerships – partnerships of highly specialised individ...
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Content Type:
General
08 Mar 2013
Mentoring programs such as the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ Chairmen’s Mentoring Program, together with the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s Principles and Recommendations on Diversity, are among the primary reasons for the increase in the number of women on the boards of our largest...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2013
Fiona Baron talks to father-and-son team and well-known directors from Cairns, George and Ken Chapman, about their views on directorships and what it takes to make a family business work.
George Chapman AO FAICD is every bit the entrepreneur. Back in the 1960s, at just 23 years old, he la...
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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
Joining any board is an important step regardless of the type of organisation or your level of experience. Yet many directors take this step without sufficient reflection on the possible risks in terms of personal financial liability and reputational damage, and without sufficient investigation of t...
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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
Every company must have at least one director and public companies must have at least three directors. Collectively, the directors are known as the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors acts on behalf of shareholders in supervising the company. This Q&A looks at the key roles performed b...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
Directors of sports bodies run on a different track, one that some describe as too much of a business to be a sport and yet too much of a sport to be a business. Domini Stuart reports on the many hurdles they have to jump.
Between 2005 and 2010, Melbourne Storm boasted some of the most so...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
Directors of sports bodies run on a different track, one that some describe as too much of a business to be a sport and yet too much of a sport to be a business. Domini Stuart reports on the many hurdles they have to jump.
Between 2005 and 2010, Melbourne Storm boasted some of the most so...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
Rick Lee and James Strong discuss past and future challenges as Company Directors’ leadership baton is handed over.
Rick Lee FAICDOutgoing chairman Australian Institute of Company Directors
Company Director (CD):
What has given you the greatest satisfaction as c...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
Christopher Niesche investigates how boards can gain the diversity of skills and experience to better tackle growing Asian markets.
Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent, making up almost a third of the global land mass and with a population nearing four billion.
Its...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2012
Tony Featherstone examines the pros and cons of giving a shareholder a seat around the boardroom table.
There is only one way to describe Gina Rinehart’s push for Fairfax Media board seats: brutal. Since March, Rinehart has emerged as Fairfax’s largest shareholder, demanded three board se...