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FEATURES
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Cartoonist Rod Clement looks back.
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Art curator turned consultant Fiona Kalaf talks
to Brad Hatch. Plus, summer accessories.
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Incat Australia's Robert Clifford and son Craig
tell Lucinda Schmidt about rough conditions.
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24/7
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.
Lisa Jackson Pulver, director of the Muru Marri
Indigenous Health Unit, on medical training.
Catch the collaboration wave. By Mike Hanley and Scott
David.
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John Toohey reviews the management journals.
Reasons to plan that overseas trip in 2010. By Kendall Hill.
Treasury secretary Ken Henry tells Narelle
Hooper about his mum's influence.
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