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SUMMER ISSUE - CONTENTS

FEATURES

CAPTAIN'S TEST

What's it like to have to sack your mate and break in a new team? After a rough year, Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting shares some lessons with Damon Kitney.

ABC'S WORK-OUT WORLD

Piecing together the complex threads of the collapsed ABC Learning Centres group was anything but child's play for the new team in charge. CEO Rowan Webb, and the receivers he's worked with, spoke to Nabila Ahmed.


THE BIG (W) SELL

Now that the stimulus cheques are spent, it's time for Big W's CEO, Julie Coates, to show she can keep the tills ringing. She talks to Catherine Fox.

SUCCESS STRATEGIES 2010

Get set for the uptick with these strategies to help you smarten up your act. They involve thinking time, getting back into career planning, and a bit of philosophy. By Catherine Fox, Fiona Smith, Brad Hatch and Mike Hanley.

ON A MISSION

Mission Australia's Rick Grellman, Ewen Crouch and Toby Hall tell Narelle Hooper about the importance of clarifying your business and planning for your successors.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: THE DNA OF DECISION-MAKING

We subject most business processes to a barrage of analysis. So why don't we do the same to the most important one of all? By Thomas H. Davenport.

BOSS REPORT

DOING NOTHING

The hardest thing to do is perversely the best for us. Here's why. By Narelle Hooper.

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NEWS

An arty partnership, 10 hot consumer trends for 2010, and why management does matter.

YEAR IN REVIEW

Cartoonist Rod Clement looks back.

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DRESS CODE

Art curator turned consultant Fiona Kalaf talks to Brad Hatch. Plus, summer accessories.

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DUAL DRIVERS

Incat Australia's Robert Clifford and son Craig tell Lucinda Schmidt about rough conditions.

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24/7

WHERE I GET MY IDEAS

Business Council of Australia president Graham Bradley looks to Singapore to help change the national conversation.
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SUMMER READING

Mike Hanley and Catherine Fox review the best reading from 2009.

WHAT I´M WORKING ON

Lisa Jackson Pulver, director of the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, on medical training.

PODS, BLOGS ETC

Catch the collaboration wave. By Mike Hanley and Scott David.

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JOURNALS

John Toohey reviews the management journals.

TRAVEL

Reasons to plan that overseas trip in 2010. By Kendall Hill.

BEST ADVICE

Treasury secretary Ken Henry tells Narelle Hooper about his mum's influence.
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CAPTAIN'S TEST

What's it like to have to sack your mate and break in a new team? After a rough year, Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting shares some lessons with Damon Kitney.

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WORK SPACE


A weekly look at work, people and performance. First published in Tuesday's AFR. Click here.


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CORPORATE WOMAN


Catherine Fox's corporate woman column. Click here.



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AFR BOSS TV

Bruce Watt, DDI

workspaceBruce Watt, MD of Development Dimensions International tells AFR BOSS editor Narelle Hooper what the 'Young Executive of the Year' assessment and process involves, and what it takes to be a winner. Click here to view the video.

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Narellehooper SUMMER 2009 issue out now!

Are you part of the disgruntled underbelly? Or are you stumbling while trying to motivate and manage them? After the short-lived shock of the downturn many are nursing pent-up grudges, and end of year is often the time things come to a head.

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GOOD, BAD, UGLY 2009

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

Strategies for the challenges faced by investors in 2009; the upside and the downside according to respected economists. Click here.

CAREER SURVIVAL GUIDE

Tips for managing your career in a volatile environment. Click here.