In 2016, Brisbane entrepreneur Kate Middleton earned the distinction of being the only female CEO of a major player in the Australian Insurance Adjusting and Engineering industry. It’s now her personal mission to blow the floodgates wide open and make the sector a much more attractive place to work for other enterprising women. Last year, Middleton […]
Most people have a hard time admitting they are wrong, but it’s even harder when you’re the role model, the leader, the chief. Yet, admitting failure will position you and your company for success. Here are some strategies for checking your ego at the door and learning from failures in your company: 1. Fail […]
For many Australians, Christmas is an opportunity to take a well-earned break from work, however short, and spend time with family and friends. But for business leaders, including start-up founders, the holidays are often a juggling act: while it’s important to recharge the batteries, they remain personally responsible for their business, including its clients, regardless […]
Since making the tough call to completely rebrand and rebuild their social travel app, last year, Ryan Hanly and Mark Cantoni have enjoyed global success. Now used in over 180 countries, Travello (previously known as Outbound) increased its valuation to $4m in August off the back of their second funding round. Hanly, the company’s co-founder and CEO, also […]
As a CEO, you’ll have to know a lot about the critical nature in supply chain management and how it affects the bottom line of a company. There are a lot of ways to make it better and increase the connection between CEO duties and supply chain management. Many companies over the past decades have […]
Small to medium business owners are diligent when it comes to meeting their superannuation obligations to staff but growing their personal super is ‘not top of mind’, according to Tim Reed, CEO of cloud accounting provider MYOB. He told Dynamic Business that government and big business must play a role in eliminating barriers to owners making super contributions. […]
We live in a society flooded with information. We have never had as much data at our disposal as we do now due to the progress of technology; chiefly, the increasing digitisation of information. Big Data is here to stay – and it’s impacting the performance needs of all organisations, regardless of size. Decision-makers have […]
Dan Price has decided to take a huge pay cut in order to remove what he calls the “distractions” his employees were experiencing with financial difficulties.
Ensuring CEO payments are capped and monitored could make businesses more profitable, according to a new study from the University of Melbourne.
Why are some people destined to be involved in startups, and other people destined to become CEOs of large conglomerates?
