Leadership Results

• Becoming part of the conversation

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2013

  Strong differences in personalities and views can lead to robust questioning and decision-making, or a dysfunctional board of limited value. Sam Walker investigates how directors can become a meaningful part of the boardroom dialogue.   Enhancing the boardroom conversation Think a...

• Opinion Using behaviours to drive board performance

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jul 2010

  Sam Butcher explains why agreeing on and articulating the behaviours expected of directors can be a powerful tool to enhance board performance. Using behaviours to drive board performance High-performing boards proactively manage two critical dimensions of their work: the frameworks ...

• Feature Building healthy boards

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jun 2010

  A new breed of boards is likely to emerge as part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plan to reform the nation’s healthcare system. Domini Stuart gains some insights into how they could be created. Building healthy boards Challenges of sitting on a hospital board may include A complex ...

• CEO Report Directors social impact

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2010

  Directors social impact I recently had the pleasure of hosting our NSW Fellows Lunch in Sydney, where we launched important new research throwing light on the enormous contribution the director community makes to Australian society through its involvement in not-for-profit (NFP) organisations, incl...

• Inside AICD Directors impact study

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Mar 2010

  An AICD study unveils details about the huge contribution Australia’s directors make to the not-for-profit sector. Directors’ Social Impact Study Towards the end of 2009, AICD set out to gain further insights into the contribution directors make to the economy and society through their engagem...

• Feature Plotting your moves

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jun 2009

  Tony Featherstone discusses how smaller companies can build up their arsenal, draw up their war plans and harness their troops to take on the downturn. Plotting your moves In downturns, smaller companies should: Review the battle grounds carefully Update their combat strategies Anticipa...

• Featherstone Encouraging startup governance

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 May 2009

  Tony Featherstone argues that entrepreneurs need to be taught to think about boards much earlier in their venture’s development. Encouraging start-up governance I recently asked a group of entrepreneurship students about their views on boards. The response: complete silence. To be fair, ...

• Secrets for Success

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jul 2007

  What is that special mix that makes a successful company and how do directors contribute to it? Domini Stuart approaches four leading directors for clues. The X factor Success is rarely a smooth ride. Many of our leading companies have weathered storms that might have felled other organisation...

• Profile

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2006

  John Massey is as comfortable in the nursery caring for newborn babies as he is in the boardroom building multimillion dollar enterprises – but are these worlds as different as they seem? Nichola Clark reports. The nurture of business John Massey likes to describe himself as ‘a formalised e...

• Counterpoint

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jul 2006

  Steven Cole takes issue with the concept that the chairman is the first among equals – particularly if fellow directors take advantage of a safe harbour defence. First among equals or first in line? Those who contributed to Chairman of the Board – A Role in the Spotlight must be congrat...

• Counterpoint

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jun 2006

  Lynn Ralph and Alan Cameron of Cameron Ralph Pty Ltd outline some of the strengths and weaknesses of boards formed by selecting representatives from an organisation’s constituencies. The challenges of a representational board One aspect of the recent Oil for Food events, which led to the Cole ...

• Cover Story

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jun 2006

  Directors cannot afford to be ignorant of development in IT – but they should concentrate on the business case for implementing new technology and not be overwhelmed by confusing jargon. Domini Stuart reports. Coming to grips with IT As recently as the seventies, IT was nothing more than an ex...

• architect back to the drawing board

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2005

  Architect back to the drawing board The International Company Directors Course has lured even some of our more experienced directors back to the classroom, says education director Pamela Murray-Jones, who interviewed Penny Morris, a participant on the April 2005 program Penny Morris has a formidable...

• The power of questions an essential skill Executive Coaching

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Mar 2005

  If there is one factor that most recent corporate failures in Australia and overseas have in common, it is the failure of directors and executives to ask the right questions. The power of questions - an essential skill Asking the right question can save companies millions of dollars, says Christo N...

• Building a better board Cover Story

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jun 2004

  A board, like a house, needs solid foundations, but the evidence coming out of some of the recent boardroom problems such as the NAB suggest that some of these foundations are not well understood. Richard Leblanc* makes some suggestions on building a better board Building a better board A board, li...

• So you really want to be a director AICD Review

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 May 2004

  In directorland it can take years to make it to the board of a public company – if you’re lucky. Lucky? Yes lucky, and well-connected, and well-prepared. On the reckoning of the eminent panelists at the AICD’s April Director’s Briefing, “it’s a long way to the top” as AC/DC belted out in its gu...