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JULY Issue

Special

All rounders

BOSS reveals the six winners of the 2008 AFR BOSS Young Executive of the Year Awards, by Hannah Tattersall.
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Features

The power of one

The policy wonk whose influence is causing agro with employers and unions. Ai Group's Heather Ridout talks to Colleen Ryan.
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Born again

Stately Melbourne ad agency Clemenger BBDO gets a makeover. Leon Gettler reports.Read the full article

AGL reloaded

AGL's Michael Fraser tells Katrina Nicholas how he's trying to repair the damage caused by his bullmarket predecessor.
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Cross-train your brain

You can train the grey matter. Joanna Maxwell cuts through the hype to reveal what really works.
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Iron awe

The red dust of the Pilbara makes for a challenging work environment in a boom. Michael Vaughan reports.
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Gut instinct

Brad Hatch has the real story on intuition.
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Harvard Business Review

Beware the blocks for company boards. Jay W. Lorsch and Robert C. Clark reports.

Regulars

BOSS REPORT

Busting the myths on empowerment, exploding cats and making your speech count.
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BOSS CODE

Online tips for the time poor to help restock the corporate wardrobe. Natasha Silva-Jelly navigates the best online sites.

DUAL DRIVERS

Trinity Group boss Ben McCarthy and Consolidated Properties MD Don O'Rourke tell Lisa Allen how they do deals
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Twenty-four seven

What I'm Reading

Shane Yeend, boss of global game group Imagination Entertainment, on what he isn't reading.
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BOOKS

The Craftsman, What to do When you Become the Boss; and Against the Machine.

JOURNALS

Rae Cooper on the latest management journals.

What I'm working on

Monash University's Dr. Charmine Hartel works up a measure for organisational wellbeing.

BOSS COACH

What to do when trust deserts the team. By Rose-Anne Manns.

BEST ADVICE

Former Centrelink boss Jeff Whalan talks to Verona Burgess about failure.
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The power of one

The policy wonk whose influence is causing agro with employers and unions. Ai Group's Heather Ridout talks to Colleen Ryan.

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Narellehooper JULY issue out now!

It's strange, this mood of shifting realities we're dealing with. The pain of rising prices and interest rates and the shock at the petrol pump swirls through the media. And after a decade of low inflation, the impact on business inputs, supply chains and consumer behaviour is thudding home even as the resources sector struggles with meeting soaring demand. To this we add the looming impact of the Federal Government's evolving carbon emissions trading scheme, which is a bit like trying to wrestle with smoke. It comes as decision-making horizons are shrinking sharply and the strategists are busy revising scenarios. Scientific research suggests we are often ill-prepared, unable to countenance change, especially after long periods of prosperity. The psychologists even have a name for the phenomenon - deferred salience, a state in which people forget or have no experience of dealing with adversity and are ill equipped emotionally and pragmatically to respond to a challenging, ambiguous environment.


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