Leadership Results

• Spoken Word Back to basics Apr 08

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2008

  Professor Bob Garratt , the author of The Fish Rots From The Head , got back to basics on what it means to be a director while addressing AICD luncheons across Australia in March. His solutions have ancient groundings. Back to basics Is directing a proper job? There is so much talk ...

• Climate Change Riding the tsunami Apr 08

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2008

  Ric Hallgren provides some pointers on how to plan for the environmental tsunami heading the way of your business. Riding the tsunami Much has been written about the macro issues to do with what seems like an impending tsunami of environmental business impacts, threatening to overwhelm b...

• US Corporate Governance Worlds apart Feb 08

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2008

  Domini Stuart finds that Australia’s corporate governance rules have diverged from those in the US. Worlds apart As recently asthe beginning of this decade, many commentators were predicting a standardised shareholder-centred Anglo-American model of corporate governance. Then ...

• Vox Pop

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2007

  We ask three prominent directors what climate change means for their businesses and how they expect it to change the business landscape over the next decade. Monitoring the changing climate Don Argus Chairman of BHP Billiton and Brambles. Director of Australian Foundation Investment Company. ...

• Corporate Responsibility

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jul 2007

  Companies are increasingly finding that they can only flourish if they support their communities. Ian Dunlop discovered at the National Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development that corporate responsibility is here to stay. A wake-up call for directors The 8th National Business Leade...

• Spoken Word

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 May 2007

  Malcolm Simister, a principal of LMN Consulting and chairman of the Victorian Regional Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, believes that traditional budgeting encourages poor management practice and should be replaced by rolling planning and forecasting. Budgeting is...

• Company Directors Conference

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2007

  Attending the Company Directors Conference in Shanghai in May gives participants a unique opportunity to increase their network of business contacts as well as listening to thought-provoking speakers discussing issues of great significance to all directors. Time to focus on the long term One o...

• Modern Chairman Facing Greater Challenges

  Content Type: Media Release

  21 Apr 2006

  A new publication initiated by Australia’s leading chairmen and women has given rare insight into how they govern some of Australia’s largest companies. The work, Chairman of the Board – A Role in the Spotlight, was released today by The Australian Institute of Company Directors, the peak gove...

• change is inevitable

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2005

  Change is inevitable ... adapting is crucial Work hard, play hard, spend hard, live hard. Generation Y, the children of the baby boom – called the “global teens” – have no time for Generation X whining and self-doubt. They are after style, comfort and the top of the food chain; the sooner their olde...

• too much governance

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2005

  Too much governance? Chris Pearce, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, is surely right when he says it is time for Australia to take a pause in the introduction of new and intrusive regulation in corporate governance. The Prime Minister and the Business Council are on to something as well ...

• all the wrong way with lbj

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2005

  All the wrong way with LBJ It is called the LBJ effect, a course of action named after the American president who put more resources into the Vietnam war even though it was clear the war could not be won. As Larry Stybel and Maryanne Peabody* explain, the LBJ effect also explains some corporate beha...

• CEO Report Boards that work AICD Review

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 May 2004

  It has become a habit of late to proclaim new rules of corporate governance rather in the manner of Moses and the Ten Commandments – without analysis to show how the prescriptions will solve the problems that led to calls for something to be done. CEO Report Boards that work It has become a hab...

• A time for balance Cover Story

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2004

  Helen Lynch, one of Australia's leading directors, earned her stripes during some rocky times at Coles Myer and recently Southcorp. As she tells Deborah Tarrant it is time for boards to once again concentrate on strategy, corporate performance and creating shareholder wealth Helen Lynch A time fo...

• Check your corporate governance code before exercising options ASIC Report

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2004

  The increased focus on corporate governance has brought to light certain inconsistencies in the way companies apply their published codes of practice, especially to how directors and executives exercise their options over company shares. Check your corporate governance code before exercising options...

• ASX Corporate Governance Council Guidelines AICD to initiate consultation with company directors

  Content Type: Media Release

  30 Mar 2003

  ASX Corporate Governance Council Guidelines AICD to initiate consultation with company directors. ASX Corporate Governance Council Guidelines: AICD to initiate consultation with company directorsThe Australian Institute of Company Directors ("AICD") today welcomed the release of the ASX ...

• Australia ahead on corporate governance reform

  Content Type: Media Release

  21 Jan 2003

  Australia ahead on corporate governance reform