Leadership

Rick Carragher will leave Xero in early August after serving 16 months as chief technology officer, employees were told on Wednesday.

Xero’s chief people officer, charged with driving the company’s “performance-driven culture”, departed the ASX accounting giant earlier this month.

Opinion: Employers remain legally responsible for workplace safety, so they need enough authority to decide when remote work is appropriate, argues founder of Safetrac, Deborah Coram

In an interview with Forbes, the design software giant’s CEO Melanie Perkins discusses her and husband Cliff Obrecht’s latest philanthropic initiative.

Opinion: Meetings consume up to a third of the working week, but often leave us drained. Work futurist Dominic Price offers a practical way to decide which ones to kill, keep or tweak.

Stalled decision-making, perfectionism, withheld innovation, and wasted cognitive energy are quietly tanking corporate productivity. Dr. Shade Zohrai outlines a framework to help teams build the internal authority required to face disruption head-on.

Opinion: The debate over working from home has focused on productivity and flexibility. Clinibase CEO Pam Ramali believes the bigger issue is one that’s much harder to measure. There are two murals on the walls of Clinibase’s Melbourne headquarters. David “Meggs” Hooke, a Collingwood artist who has spent years capturing the character and texture of […]

Opinion: Happiness researcher Declan Edwards argues that corporate wellness budgets are booming but burnout persists because employers push meditation and apps instead of fixing toxic workloads and poor management. We are living through one of the most expensive, yet least effective eras of workplace wellbeing in history. Corporate wellbeing budgets are scaling to unprecedented heights. Yet the metrics executives care […]

Opinion: Most organisations are still optimising for the last phase of AI. These five shifts explain why yesterday’s playbook is rapidly becoming obsolete and what business leaders should do next, writes Lucio Ribeiro

Opinion: Flexible work means little if leadership roles remain built around outdated workplace norms. Karlie Cremin argues Australia is still failing to support mothers at the top. For all the progress Australia claims to have made on flexible work, one stubborn truth remains: the higher you climb in leadership, the less flexibility you are afforded. […]