06 Feb 2018
Six must-have skills for leaders in the digital economy
Leo D'Angelo Fisher |
The idea technology is something which happens in the IT department won’t cut it anymore.
articles by Leo D'Angelo Fisher
17 Jul 2017
Leadership lessons from GoT (no spoilers!)
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
Betrayal, deceit, false flattery, mind games… don’t worry, we’re not talking about work - are we?
25 Apr 2017
How modern PAs complete the best execs
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
Sometime in the early 1980s, a time when most Australians thought espresso was a service offered by courier companies, the media company I was working for lashed out on a coffee machine for the staff kitchen.
13 Apr 2017
Bring back the typewriter? Write on!
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
There was a time when the typewriter was a marvel of cutting edge technology. But look at a typewriter today and the first thing that comes to mind is “old technology” - with what level affection depending on where one stands on the typewriter affection spectrum, from “good riddance” to moist-eyed nostalgia to retro appreciation.
20 Jan 2017
A new resolve for New Year resolutions
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
They may be more honoured in the breach, but New Year’s resolutions continue to be something we hold dear. Setting goals at the beginning of a New Year is both logistically sound and deeply rooted in custom: people have been making New Year’s resolutions since the time of ancient Rome.
29 Jul 2016
It’s standing room only in the C-Suite
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
When it comes to corporate careers, you know you’ve made it when you gain entry to the mahogany environs of the C-suite. ‘C’ being for ‘chief’ - as in Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO), or the big three ‘C’heeses.
02 May 2016
You wouldn’t meet about it
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
Call someone during the day and there’s every chance you will be told they are in a meeting. Look around at work and almost certainly someone, a pile of papers under-arm, will be breathlessly rushing to their next meeting.
01 Feb 2016
Ten ways to keep your New Year leadership resolution
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
New Year's resolutions might seem a harmless custom – vows to join a gym or learn to do the tango - you know in your heart of hearts will never make it off the to-do list. But why waste the opportunity to make substantive changes?
15 Jan 2016
Long live the messy desk?
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
We know at BlueNotes – courtesy of our most-read story –the tie or no tie with business suit debate is a hostile one. But we've found another: desk management. Our publisher, Paul Edwards, was so stunned by the state of the desk of our managing editor, Andrew Cornell, he tweeted a pic of it.
17 Nov 2015
A dressing down for dress down Friday
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
A lot of men seem to have decided it's time to discard the tie for work. Yet, in most cases, they still wear a suit. Frankly, it just isn't a good look. It is a rare man indeed who can get away with wearing a suit without a tie. Those who can would probably look fetching in a barrel and braces...
29 Jan 2015
Decisions are the lifeblood of an organisation
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
Managers who can’t make decisions – it seems counterintuitive. Someone can build a management career by not making decisions? But we’ve all worked for them, so we know they exist.
18 Dec 2014
It’s party time :(
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
Given all companies now are perpetually on the scrounge for excess expenditure items to expunge from their organisations, here’s an idea: scrap the staff Christmas party. No good comes of them: tarnished reputations, conversations that can’t be unhad, warm beer. And bad dancing.
30 Oct 2014
Attention managers: we need to talk
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
When somebody decides to change employer, chances are that high on the list of reasons will be dissatisfaction with their immediate manager.
21 May 2014
To kiss or not to kiss
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
Who would blame a businesswoman or female dignitary for counting to 10 before entering a crowded room? Or even 100. Any woman walking into a gathering of peers and associates, or worse, a roomful of strangers, knows what to expect. For on the other side of that door will be a gaggle of men programmed to pucker up the instant a member of the opposite sex enters their midst.