Leadership

Teach a [person] how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime – Chinese proverb.

When Dominique Lyone, founder of the $300 million Australian workplace product solutions firm COS, stepped down from his role as CEO of the company in 2021, daughters Belinda and Amie knocked their heads together to figure out who was best suited to the job.

I have experienced what it is like to be famous. To be clear, I wasn’t the famous one, my clients were.

Live coverage of the Forbes Power Women’s Summit.

Business Group Director for Modern Work and Surface at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand, Jane Mackerell, thinks leaders can key into the work culture of tomorrow by paying attention to these three buzzy phrases.

If you are a CEO or business founder, there’s a shiny (if not-so-new) KPI on your scorecard list – and it could unseat your future if not embraced well and managed with gusto. It is AI, or Artificial Intelligence.

“Adobe’s Equal Pay Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of the gender pay gap that continues to prevail in the STEM industry. It reaffirms our global commitment to pay parity across gender.”

Women in Australia earn 87 cents per $1 paid to a man, according to ABS data. The new gender pay gap figure comes in the same week that the Australian women’s rugby team is meeting with Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh. The Wallaroos are pushing for investment in the sport for future generations.

The hardware provider behind the FIFA Women’s World Cup, a US-founded hotel chain with 14 local outposts, and a homegrown Aussie tech unicorn have all made the list.

Fear over artificial intelligence replacing jobs has dominated many of the headlines around AI and work. But job boards LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter and Indeed are seeing the number of new AI-related jobs grow exponentially, too.