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• In the business of sport

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2013

  Gillian McFee talks to Zilla Efrat about the many challenges of sitting on a sports board and her views of reform in the not-for-profit and aged-care sectors. Even though she didn’t play basketball, Gillian McFee FAICD says she was appointed to the Basketball Australia board because of he...

• Q&A with Corey Payne

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Mar 2013

  Corey Payne talks to Zilla Efrat about the challenges of being a younger director, his recent departure from rugby league and his future plans. In January, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs back rower and NSW Young Australian of the Year for 2013 Corey Payne surprised some when he retired fr...

• Q&A with Peter Shergold

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2013

  Once Australia’s most senior public servant, Professor Peter Shergold is now enjoying new challenges as a professional director. He talks to Zilla Efrat about leaving the public sector, the strengths public servants can bring to boards and how business and government can better understand each other...

• What will worry directors in 2013

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Dec 2012

  Zilla Efrat asks some directors and advisers to forecast the risks that will keep directors up at night in 2013. The directors Elizabeth Carr FAICDChairman of the Macular Degeneration Foundation. Director of the Kokoda Track Foundation, Kambala Anglican School for Girls NSW and...

• What to expect in 2013

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Dec 2012

  Zilla Efrat turns to superstition, various religions and the Chinese zodiac to assess whether 2013 is set to be a good year for Australia’s directors. The story goes that in 1898, South African diamond magnate Woolf Joel held a banquet at London’s famous Savoy Hotel. At the last minute, o...

• Lessons from the courtrooms

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2012

  Zilla Efrat reports on the many boardroom lessons from the courtrooms discussed at the Essential Director Update. "We can all learn from the misfortunes of our fellow directors," observed Alan Cameron AO FAICD as he launched into his address at the Essential Director Update in Sydney last...

• Indigenous governance at the crossroads

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2012

  Peter Yu talks to Zilla Efrat about how Indigenous governance is at the crossroads and how his career has evolved alongside changing political dynamics in Australia over the past four decades. Peter Yu believes Indigenous governance is at the crossroads of massive change. Yu, who is c...

• Building your director brand

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2012

  Zilla Efrat asks a range of experts for their top tips on how you can brush up on your directorship brand to secure your first or more board positions. Alison GainesGlobal Practice Leader – Board ConsultingGerard Daniels The best resumes for emerging and professional non...

• Shedding light on the NFP sector

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Oct 2012

  Australia’s only study examining governance of the not-for-profit sector dispels many widely held myths and assumptions. Zilla Efrat reports. Key findings: There are no discernible differences between the governance effectiveness of NFP and for-profit (FP) boards. There...

• Q&A with Greg Medcraft

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2012

  Greg Medcraft talks to Zilla Efrat about how ASIC is becoming more proactive and transparent in an ever more complex corporate regulatory environment that has been reshaped by the GFC, increasing globalisation and technology innovations. Greg Medcraft has had plenty of time to find his fe...

• Hooked on Asia

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Aug 2012

  Peter Church has spent the past 40 years travelling and living in South East Asia. He talks to Zilla Efrat about some of his experiences and lessons gathered along the way. Peter Church’s fascination for Asia began early in his childhood and has shaped his adult life and career. He is...

• Towards more successful AGMs

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Aug 2012

  With the AGM season fast approaching, Zilla Efrat asks a range of experts what frustrates them most about these meetings and how they can be improved. The questions: What tips would you give directors to help them conduct more successful AGMs? What frustrates you most ab...

• Seeing the complex world through new eyes

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jul 2012

  Two experts believe that to look at ever more complex problems differently, directors should get out of their comfort zones. Zilla Efrat reports. We live in an increasingly complex world that our brains aren’t wired to deal with. Dr Kathleen Taylor, a professor at Saint Mary’s College...

• The dos and don’ts of NFP reform

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jun 2012

  Zilla Efrat discovers what NFP experts would like government to consider when reforming this sector and what concerns them most about proposed reforms. Rt Revd Dr Chris Jones FAICDCEO of Anglicare Tasmania. The Productivity Commission report into the contribution of the not-for...

• The view from the top

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jun 2012

  The key message from the Company Directors national conference in Darwin last month was that Australia could lose out on the benefits of the resources boom if it did not take the right actions now. Zilla Efrat reports. It was perhaps most fitting that last month’s Australian Institute of ...