Australian businesses and US businesses are adopting totally different strategies for the year ahead. Our chief executives are going down a dangerous path, says Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.
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The female CEOs of the Fortune 500
Out of the top Fortune 500 companies in the US, only 18 of them are run by women. Fortune profiles the top females, from new IBM boss Ginni Rometty to Indian-born Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo.
Wanted: a female Bill Gates
Women are no longer expected to be stay-at-home mums but it’s still rare for them to be CEOs of major businesses. Author Gloria Feldt explains how women are more likely to keep quiet, undervalue themselves and not ask for that big pay rise.
Kohler: and the survey shows … Labor’s growing labour crisis
There’s been a dramatic shift in sentiment among Australia’s chief executives that puts what’s going on in Canberra today into sharp relief. Skills shortages have come back into sharp focus.
The best CEOs are like toddlers
Greedy, full of energy, say “No! Mine! regularly and are prone to throw tantrums: the cream of the CEO crop are like a bunch of sooky three-year olds, says Lucy Kellaway.
The future of CEOs and social networking
Websites like Facebook may have reached phenomenal levels of popularity but their powers remain largely unharnessed by those at the top of the corporate food chain. Jennifer Van Grove peers into the crystal ball and imagines the web savvy CEO of tomorrow.
Kohler: CEO’s like the cut of Abbott’s jib
The latest Newspoll suggests Australian CEOs favour Tony Abbott over Julia Gillard any day of the week. Gillard’s IR rhetoric and talk of “little Australia” has made the bosses turn against her in their droves, says Alan Kohler.
Bosses most likely to get the boot
Economist offers the odds of the CEOs most likely to be shown the door in the next 12 months. Will Tony Hayward from BP and Tidjane Thiam from Prudential get the sack?
Meet the women who rule the web
The internet is no longer a geeky boys club with not a female in sight. Think of the founder of Flickr, CEO of TechCrunch and the social media guru of the NY Times: all ladies.
Exec pay: AICD solution is to hide some from shareholders
The top 20 CEOs in Australia (that is, those managing the 20 largest companies), were paid on average 320 times the wage of the lowest-paid workers in the country.
The blokes who should step aside for female directors
It’s time for Australia to fix its woeful record when it comes to female representation on public company boards. Here’s some suggestions of which men should clear out to give the ladies some room.
graph pr0n Booting out the bosses
An interesting look at the turnover rate of CEOs from the the 2,500 biggest publicly listed companies in the world. CEOs promoted from within the company are usually the most successful.
What business leaders can learn from London cabbies
The decision making and conflict management skills London cab drivers need to learn to pass The Knowledge could be far more useful to CEOs than an MBA, says risk manager Stephen Adshead.
French women get equality, as long as they’re beautiful
France is to become the second country in the world with a quota of women on company boards. But oh la la, is this turning into a policy to get wives and girlfriends of bosses appointed, pretty things who’ll be seen and not heard?
Our top five good-value CEOs for 2009
Some Australian CEOs are worth their pay cheques. Here’s the pick of the top five boardroom bunch for 2009.
Crikey Says: Who says CEOs get paid too much?
Obscene executive remuneration undoubtedly exists, and its classic fodder for ridicule. But how easy is it to define and regulate CEO pay?
Leighton CEO King of the heap on vulgar pay rich list
As the final annual reports trickle in, the truly horrific picture of just how much Australia’s richest CEOs were paid last year is being fully revealed.
Termination payouts: government policy simply makes sense
The federal government introduced a Bill seeking to limit executive termination payments to one year’s fixed salary. But in a move that’s commercially, morally and politically indefensible, the Libs have opposed it.
Chris Bowen is very, very wrong on executive pay
Part of the reason that executives are paid so much is because of their ability to make their jobs sound far more complicated and difficult than they actually are.
Importing success: the world’s best immigrant CEOs
Immigration reform is set to be a thorny political issue for US President Barack Obama. Business Week uses it as an excuse for a photo essay of the world’s most successful executive imports.
Taking stock: How to keep CEOs in check
If CEOs were forced to invest in large long-term stakes in the companies they manage, shareholders would be able to stop worrying about executive bonuses, argues Zac Bissionnette.
Work/life balance? Tell ‘em they’re dreaming…
Former GE CEO Jack Welch has announced that “There’s no such thing as work-life balance” if you want to get to the top. Women hear it constantly, but what does it mean for men?
Executive pay: regulation is not a dirty word
In the midst of a global recession, few issues have galvanized public anger in developed countries as much as executive pay, writes CFMEU national secretary John Sutton.
Are these Australia’s busiest directors?
Fewer and fewer directors seem to be getting the prize gongs, such as chairmanships of listed companies, writes Glenn Dyer.
Golden handshakes limited by legislation, CEOs unimpressed
Despite the Federal Government’s gold handshake legislation merely giving shareholders the right to veto large payouts, CEOs were unimpressed.
