Australia has one of the highest levels of employment in the world, but we’re not so good on work-life balance, according to a study of the quality of people’s lives across the world.

In recent months several high-level leaders have mysteriously lost their way.

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, has long professed to admire Peter Drucker’s teachings on how to manage workers in an age defined by knowledge and information.

Some CEOs of long tenure must have gotten a slightly queasy feeling as they watched the recent events in the Arab world.

Ed Kosner, editor of Newsweek, hired me to do a job I wasn’t sure I was capable of doing. Thrown into deep water, I had no choice but to swim. But I also knew he wouldn’t let me drown. His confidence buoyed me.

We think it is time to take charge and say farewell to conventional thinking and business-as-usual.