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afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
May 27, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When Paul McGrath’s wife was pregnant with the couple’s third child, the now chief executive of low-cost holiday accommodation provider YHA Australia received devastating news. He was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, a blood cancer, and given a 5 per cent chance of survival. Loading...
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ourcommunitynow.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
One of the best pieces of career advice Melinda Petrunoff’ has ever been given is to work in roles where she felt uncomfortable at least 20 per cent of the time. Otherwise, “you are not learning, and you’re not growing”. CONTINUE READING
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2 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
May 20, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? One of the best pieces of career advice Melinda Petrunoff’ has ever been given is to work in roles where she felt uncomfortable at least 20 per cent of the time. Otherwise, “you are not learning, and you’re not growing”. Loading...
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3 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
May 13, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When former AFL Sydney Swans senior coach John Longmire started in his role in 2011, he found himself staying up until midnight after a match.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
May 6, 2025 – 6.07am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Before Holly Masters ran the McGrath Foundation, she was working for the Estee Lauder group of luxury brand products, running a division with a turnover of about $1 billion. Now she sits atop a charity that funds nurses to take care of cancer patients.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
Apr 29, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When asked with whom he would like to have dinner and why, Damien Nicks does not immediately suggest a high-profile business person, musician, actor or president. His initial response is his family. Loading...
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
Apr 22, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Grant Hackett is chief executive of Generation Development Group, a provider of specialist financial products, largely for retirees, and asset management and financial research services.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
Apr 15, 2025 – 5.00amGift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginDamien Mu assumed he was healthy. The chief executive of life insurer AIA in Australia ate well and exercised regularly. He doesn’t eat breakfast because he finds he functions better in the mornings without it. But then Mu went for a health check.
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
Apr 8, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Earlier in his career, Brett Woods, now chief executive of Adelaide-based oil and gas explorer Beach Energy, was working in Africa where he was trying to secure a licence. He needed a local company to help secure the licence, and that’s where the trouble started. Loading...
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan
Apr 1, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Boost Juice founder Janine Allis is an early adopter of health hacks. The entrepreneur doesn’t want to live forever, but she was struck a few years ago when she saw an old lady using a walker. Allis’ reaction was, “I do not want to be her.”Loading...
