Insights

The high-stakes decisions boards can't avoid

AICD Company Director

Boards used to have time to think. The 24/7 news cycle, social media and activist investors have crushed that window — and the cost of a slow response is increasingly paid by directors personally, not just companies.

By Helen Hawkes

How crisis management can influence reputation

AICD Company Director

Most crises aren't communications problems. They're operational problems dressed up as communications problems — and the companies that figure that out fast can come out reputationally stronger than they went in.

By Christopher Niesche

Why we lie and what it costs

The Deal magazine

republished on LinkedIn

Most organisations quietly train their people to hide bad news. Harvard research confirms it: when the messenger walks in, the boss shoots first. The cost of that habit is rarely paid by the people who set it up.

By John Connolly

Directors and executives in the spotlight

The Deal magazine, The Australian

There are three jobs you don't want: prime minister of Australia, and director or senior executive of an Australian public company. While the job churn and media focus is tough for the titular leader of Australia, you have more chance of going to jail, seeing bad photos of yourself and your family in the paper and your children copping a hard time at school if you're a member of a board or the top team. That's not how it was meant to be.

By John Connolly