02 Mar 2023
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Closing the gender gaps is more than an annual commitment. This selection of stories celebrates the efforts for and by women from all walks of life from all through the year.
19 Jan 2023
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
These are the articles that most engaged you in 2022 on bluenotes and ANZ News.
14 Sep 2022
Elaine Bensted
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CEO, Zoos South Australia
Collaboration is the key ingredient in many settings, but most of all when the survival of a species is at stake.
03 Aug 2022
Kathryn van der Merwe
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Group Executive – Talent & Culture, ANZ
ANZ’s Head of Service Centres says companies must focus on flexibility, meaningful and interesting work and career progression to win the war for talent.
16 Mar 2022
Durreen Shahnaz
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Founder and CEO of IIX
ANZ CEO reflects on the lessons he has learned through the pandemic and how he remained defiantly optimistic.
15 Mar 2022
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Command and control-style leadership will not help organisations attract and retain talent anymore. Now, the focus must be on empathetic leadership.
08 Mar 2022
Jemma Wight
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Production Editor, bluenotes
Today may be International Women’s Day but women make contributions to their home, work, industry and community year-round.
08 Feb 2022
James McKay & Megan Anderson
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Product Owner SWP & COO Technology, ANZ
Businesses must strategically plan for workforce needs in the face of “the great resignation” in a post-pandemic environment.
19 Jan 2022
Farhan Faruqui
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CFO, ANZ
ANZ CFO Farhan Faruqui maps his leadership journey and identifies the skills a good leader needs to develop their team.
13 Dec 2021
Paul O’Sullivan, Shayne Elliott, Antonia Watson and more!
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Executives and Directors, ANZ
After nearly two years of lockdown periods spent streaming, reading or listening, we asked ANZ’s executives and board for their top recommendations.
02 Dec 2021
Antonia Watson
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ANZ Group Executive and CEO, New Zealand
New research illustrates a positive flow-on effect for female participation and achievement when we “watch women win”.
16 Nov 2021
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
Former Australian Prime Minister says the pandemic should be an opportunity for businesses learn and do more to combat inequality in the workplace.
27 Aug 2021
Antonia Watson
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ANZ Group Executive and CEO, New Zealand
ANZ New Zealand CEO Antonia Watson reflects on the environment for banking, the crucial need for diversity and what makes a good leader.
06 Jul 2021
Marisa Slatter
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Director, Capgemini Research Institute
The nature of when, where and how employees do their job has been completely disrupted by the pandemic.
24 Jun 2021
Sachi Taulelei
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Design Centre of Expertise Lead, ANZ
Technology is a reflection of who we are; ensuring we’re all represented is key to its success.
09 Jun 2021
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
As global economies turn to digital solutions, organisations and industries must focus on building and maintaining trust to win big.
19 May 2021
Rita Da Silva
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Wealth & Asset Management Leader, EY Oceania
A focus on sustainability, diversity and inclusion will shape the wealth management journey for many Australians.
14 May 2021
Kathryn van der Merwe
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Group Executive – Talent & Culture, ANZ
Lessons learnt from the rapid shift to working from home will create long-term benefits for staff across ANZ.
13 May 2021
David Locke
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Chief Ombudsman & CEO, AFCA
The COVID-19 pandemic created a unique set of circumstances leading to financial stress. Financial services must stay focused on the bigger picture to assist customers through.
29 Mar 2021
Alexis George
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Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Group Executive Wealth Australia, ANZ
2020 crammed five years of evolution into one – that was true for workforces as well as technology and business operations.
19 Mar 2021
Gerard Florian
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Group Executive Technology, ANZ
Atlassian Work Futurist says companies must move away from measuring productivity traditionally if they want to succeed in a distributed future – and learn to drop the rituals.
08 Mar 2021
Jemma Wight
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Production Editor, bluenotes
Today may be International Women’s Day but women make contributions to their home, work, industry and community year-round.
22 Feb 2021
Julie Chai
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Founder & CEO, The Asian Leadership Project
Order of Australia recipient Jenny Taing reflects on leadership and diversity in the financial services sector.
08 Feb 2021
Dr Roger Miles
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Faculty Lead - Conduct and Culture Academy, UK Finance
The COVID-19 pandemic brought into focus the clear need for the financial services industry to look at all aspects of culture.
28 Jan 2021
Shayne Elliott
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Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that companies must move quickly in transforming their businesses to be digital-first.
21 Jan 2021
Kathryn van der Merwe
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Group Executive – Talent & Culture, ANZ
Six core beliefs will guide ANZ into the future of how its workplaces operate both in the office and remotely.
16 Dec 2020
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
New ANZ Chairman Paul O’Sullivan says boards must take a long-term view when making crucial business decisions and keep the community in mind.
03 Dec 2020
Kevin Corbally
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Chief Risk Officer, ANZ
ANZ Director Graeme Liebelt reflects on the experiences that led him to the bank’s board and what he looks for in leadership.
01 Dec 2020
Michael Bray
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Director In-Country Engagement, IIRC
Businesses must provide markets and investors with more than just a profit and loss sheet. They must integrate their reporting to cover the intangible too.
17 Nov 2020
Amanda Watt
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Workplace Relations Partner, MinterEllison
A new form of non-disclosure agreements will provide more support to victims of sexual harassment, promoting a safer workplace for all.
17 Nov 2020
Amanda Watt
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Workplace Relations Partner, MinterEllison
A new form of non-disclosure agreements will provide more support to victims of sexual harassment, promoting a safer workplace for all.
13 Nov 2020
Anna Bligh
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Chief Executive, Australian Banking Association
Amid the uncertainty of the pandemic, Australia’s banks responded in lock step for the benefit of all customers and the economy.
28 Oct 2020
Kathryn van der Merwe
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Group Executive – Talent & Culture, ANZ
Ongoing, two-way communication between management and employees is a key factor determining the flexible future of work at ANZ.
08 Oct 2020
Rita Newman
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Group General Manager, Joiners and Movers, ANZ
While much of the detail of the future of work remains to be discovered, fundamental organisation beliefs and leadership play a key role.
01 Oct 2020
Content Centre of Expertise
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Corporate Communications at ANZ
50 years ago today, two banks came together in a merger to form what we know as the modern day ANZ.
01 Oct 2020
Dr David Rock
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Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer NeuroLeadership Institute
Uncertainty creates stress and when sustained reduce productivity and focus. But what can leaders do to help during periods of ongoing change?
01 Sep 2020
Annette Kimmitt
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CEO & Managing Partner, MinterEllison
A focus on purpose helped ANZ find a way through initial stages of COVID-19 crisis, says CEO in wide-ranging podcast.
24 Aug 2020
Calissa Aldridge
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Senior Executive Leader - Market Supervision, ASIC
A robust conduct risk framework should be embedded in the fabric of all financial institutions, according to the Australian corporate regulator.
01 Jun 2020
Bansi Madhavani & Sanjay Mathur
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Economist & Chief Economist Southeast Asia and India, ANZ
The COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns have disproportionately impacted women – particularly in India where it was already a major issue.
18 May 2020
Dr Jeremiah Brown
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ANZ Tony Nicholson Research Fellow
All Australians must support the most vulnerable members of society with dignity and respect. It’s in all our interests.
17 Mar 2020
Dr Simon Longstaff
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Executive Director, The Ethics Centre
Businesses must keep conduct risk front of mind in all aspects of decision making.
10 Mar 2020
Georgia Nowak & Eugene Perepletchikov
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Artists & Producers, Aurum
The history of gold is embedded in societies across the world. But the commodity’s complexity shows its true richness.
05 Mar 2020
Richard Yetsenga
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Chief Economist, ANZ
If economic policy is designed with men in mind, no wonder women feel left behind.
09 Dec 2019
David Gonski, Shayne Elliott, Alexis George & more
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ANZ leaders
Sit back and relax these holidays with a great book, podcast or TV series recommended by ANZ’s executives and board members.
18 Nov 2019
Natasha Stott Despoja
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Founder & Chair, Our Watch
Violence against women is a global epidemic. And Australia is not immune.
01 Nov 2019
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Paula Dwyer discusses challenges in a post-Royal Commission environment and the need for more women in corporate Australia.
11 Oct 2019
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Ilana Atlas says this era of financial services – and corporate life – demands pace and flexibility.
26 Sep 2019
Clare Molan
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Whistleblower Program Lead, ANZ
New whistleblower legislation will deliver value to both organisations and their wider communities.
25 Sep 2019
Tim Nelson
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CEO, Korn Ferry Australasia
The relationship between businesses and government is complicated but, if done right, can have benefits for all.
23 Sep 2019
Shane Buggle
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Group General Manager Internal Audit, ANZ
Large organisations have complex cultures. Deeper understanding helps identify where change is needed.
19 Sep 2019
Kishore Mahbubani
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Professor at the National University of Singapore
Is a subconscious – or conscious – fear of the “other” fanning the flames of US-China tensions?
13 Sep 2019
Ryan Crocker & Richard Cartmell
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Social Business Development Manager & Community Manager, ANZ
Workplaces are getting more and more social online, whether people ‘like’ it or not.
10 Sep 2019
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
John Macfarlane has run banks, farms, shopping centres – what’s the link?
03 Sep 2019
Mark Phillips
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Partner, Ernst & Young Australia
The role of reward - traditionally fixed salary and bonuses - is changing in Australia and globally.
15 Aug 2019
Kelsey Hightower
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Staff Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform
Leaders must keep employees focused on customer problems and sharing their expertise, according to Google expert.
09 Aug 2019
Julie Chai
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Founder & CEO, The Asian Leadership Project
Despite recent tailwinds encouraging change, Asian-Australians still face many barriers in the professional arena.
19 Jul 2019
Tracy Middleton
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Contributing Writer, Work Life by Atlassian
Job burnout is a growing epidemic - particularly in tech. Employers need to act to put out the flame.
21 Jun 2019
Kathryn van der Merwe
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Group Executive – Talent & Culture, ANZ
Companies must do more to measure the impact of D&I programs to ensure employee and company benefits.
17 May 2019
Dominic Price
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Work Futurist at Atlassian
A culture of presenteeism can sometimes hold people back from working remotely which could be bad for business.
09 May 2019
Elizabeth Masamune
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Managing Director of @Asia Associates Japan
Celebrations in Japan have erupted at the beginning of a new era, so will Reiwa really bring beautiful harmony?
25 Mar 2019
Alicia Aitken
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Head of Investment Management for Strategic Projects, ANZ
Atlassian’s resident Work Futurist explains how OKRs – objectives and key results - can empower autonomous workforces.
19 Mar 2019
Alexis George
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Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Group Executive Wealth Australia, ANZ
Improving culture will build a better nation, says former Australian of the Year David Morrison.
08 Mar 2019
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Coming back to work can be daunting but coming back into an ever-changing tech industry is another thing all together.
08 Mar 2019
Jemma Wight
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Production Editor, bluenotes
For IWD2019, we want to help shed light on some of the challenges faced by women as we all try to balance for better.
08 Mar 2019
Ivy Au Yeung
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Chief Executive Officer ANZ Hong Kong
Women in Hong Kong aren’t just leaving work to look after the family, new research has shown.
08 Mar 2019
Cissy Gore-Birch
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National Aboriginal Engagement Manager, BHA
Indigenous women helping to care for their country can boost social and economic returns.
08 Mar 2019
Melanie Brock
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Consultant
Stereotypes of Japanese women are outdated and unhelpful; one project is helping celebrate their achievements.
08 Mar 2019
Maryann Jamieson
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Domain Lead, Business Automation & Integration, ANZ
Where would the tech industry be today if women were present over the last decade?
08 Mar 2019
Richard Yetsenga
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Chief Economist, ANZ
Diversity is good for the economy (although diversity in economics is still lacking).
11 Feb 2019
Elizabeth Masamune
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Managing Director of @Asia Associates Japan
A super smart society can be Japan PM Abe’s legacy.
08 Feb 2019
Bianca Hartge-Hazelman
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Founder, Financy Women’s Index
The pace of economic equality for women seems to be slowing – will 2019 be the year it finally changes?
30 Jan 2019
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Successful organisations must do more than just make money – and they need to do it if they want to keep making money.
18 Dec 2018
Gerard O'Neill
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Former CEO, Bush Heritage Australia
Changing attitudes about women in the conversation sector are creating opportunities for growth and reparation.
12 Dec 2018
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
In the first of our new series, ANZ chairman David Gonski speaks on video about the future challenges for financial services.
11 Dec 2018
David Gonski, Shayne Elliott, Ilana Atlas & more
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ANZ leaders
Chill out – or swot up - these holidays with a great book, podcast or Netflix series recommended by ANZ leaders.
30 Nov 2018
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Businesses have an obligation to ensure their people are learning, expert says – the ones which pull it off will be the ones who win.
20 Nov 2018
Rochelle Johnson
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Analyst, Group Technology & Pride Senior Leader, ANZ
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, it’s important to reflect on the next steps to equality for everyone.
17 Oct 2018
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
For innovation we need more women, more internationalists and more internationalist women.
16 Oct 2018
Jo Masters & Bianca Hartge-Hazelman
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Senior Economist, ANZ & Founder, Financy Women’s Index
The latest Financy Women’s Index Progress Target sets out clear, achievable goals for economic gender equality.
15 Oct 2018
Katie Bennett-Stenton
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National Marketing Lead, Energy & Resources, Deloitte
Workplaces which provide flexibility are helping staff make the most of their lives – and those of their families.
09 Oct 2018
Andrew Maxwell
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Knowledge & Development Manager, Diversity Council Australia
Organisations must do more to include people with a disability into their teams and workspaces.
05 Oct 2018
Katie Lahey
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Executive Chairman, Korn Ferry Australasia
Could your organisation’s next CEO be a woman? If not you need to change the future, says Korn Ferry’s executive chairman.
02 Oct 2018
Andrew Maxwell
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Knowledge & Development Manager, Diversity Council Australia
Stereotypes about Indigenous Australians in the workplace still exist, so how their growth and success be encouraged?
25 Sep 2018
Lisa Annese
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CEO, Diversity Council Australia Limited
With 71 per cent of Australians having been sexually harassed at some point in their lives, workplaces must do more to support victims.
18 Sep 2018
Andrew Maxwell
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Knowledge & Development Manager, Diversity Council Australia
Mental health issues impact all workplaces - here’s why leaders should care.
11 Sep 2018
Andrew Maxwell
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Knowledge & Development Manager, Diversity Council Australia
LGBTIQ+ inclusive cultures create a more productive and innovative workplace, says DCA.
04 Sep 2018
Andrew Maxwell
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Knowledge & Development Manager, Diversity Council Australia
Most major cities in Australia boast restaurants of many cultures – but is this where our love for multiculturalism ends?
03 Sep 2018
Shayne Elliott
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Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
Shayne Elliott & Dr Simon Longstaff chat about the complex role of banks in how customers spend their money.
20 Aug 2018
Shayne Elliott
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Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
ADC Dr Kay Patterson discusses the many benefits of supporting those who want to stay in the workforce past the retirement age.
10 Aug 2018
Siobhan Enright
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bluenotes contributor
Māori businesses are booming and there’s a lot to be learnt from them.
10 Aug 2018
Siobhan Enright
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bluenotes contributor
Kei te puāwai ngā pakihi Māori, ā, he nui ngā akoranga ka puta i a rātau.
13 Jul 2018
Tomasz Ng
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bluenotes contributor
In football, the teams which think it through are the ones which prosper. It’s the same in business, these five tips show.
25 Jun 2018
Elizabeth Masamune
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Managing Director of @Asia Associates Japan
Good manners make a lasting impression in Japan, where locals try to ensure every moment of a guest’s experience is special.
19 Jun 2018
Kath Bray
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Managing Director - Retail Banking, ANZ
Look beyond the buzzwords on agile and you’ll see ways it can change a business for the better.
19 Jun 2018
Sally Warhaft
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Broadcaster, anthropologist and writer
ANZ CEO explains why agile – and the impact it has had on the bank.
18 Jun 2018
Penelope Barr
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Lead, New Ways of Delivering, ANZ
Demand for agile coaches is outstripping supply. So who are they, what do they do – and why are they so valuable?
08 Jun 2018
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
It’s an adviser’s job to know their clients as well as their money – but should they be asking ‘are you ok?’
04 Jun 2018
Alicia Aitken & Greg Szopa
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bluenotes contributors
Agile ways of working is a hot topic at the moment but organisations must be wary of the hurdles.
29 May 2018
Shayne Elliott
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Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
The key to success in the workplace is just being the best at what you do now, Virgin CEO John Borghetti says.
28 May 2018
Anthony Cavanagh
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CEO, Ganbina
This National Reconciliation Week, it’s important for all Australians to reflect on our culture and history, Ganbina CEO says.
17 May 2018
Darren Sibson
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bluenotes contributor
Marriage equality is now a reality in Australia but there’s still work to do for equality and inclusion.
17 May 2018
Dylan Alcott
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Australian Open and Paralympic tennis champion
One in five Australians has a disability - so it’s time to include them in advertising.
02 May 2018
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Philanthropy – what’s in it for business? We hear from a company which says the answer is a lot.
02 May 2018
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
A panel of experts share insights into the mechanics of leadership and the importance of reflecting the diversity of your customer base.
26 Apr 2018
Sam Stewart
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Partner Financial Services, Boston Consulting Group
As companies become more digital, they need to be mindful their culture matches their ambition.
24 Apr 2018
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
ANZ CEO chats to bluenotes about the origin of ANZ’s purpose and the leadership role of business in the community.
19 Apr 2018
Janak Rogers
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Host, The ANZ Way podcast
Financial wellbeing expert encourages financial services providers to identify people with an overreliance on debt.
16 Apr 2018
Melinda Renowden
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Leadership and Executive Coaching Manager, ANZ
Changing mindsets can be difficult but a clear purpose and routine can help.
12 Apr 2018
Lesley Podesta
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CEO, Alannah & Madeline Foundation
Beyond the cost of human life, bullying costs the Australian taxpayer $525 million every school year.
04 Apr 2018
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
In order to win in the digital future do big businesses need to morph into software companies?
04 Apr 2018
Shayne Elliott & Pru Bennett
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CEO, ANZ & Head of Investment Stewardships, Blackrock
ANZ CEO and Blackrock’s head of investment stewardships chat about returns and social issues.
27 Mar 2018
Shayne Elliott & Carol Dweck
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CEO, ANZ & Psychologist and Best-Selling Author
Author Carol Dweck tells ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott there’s a lot of shades of grey when it comes to mindset.
09 Mar 2018
Farhan Faruqui
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CFO, ANZ
Leadership is evolving across all industries as corporations change what it means to be a leader.
08 Mar 2018
Catherine Fox
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Journalist and author
Don't miss a thing this IWD - here's everything you should be reading, watching and listening to.
08 Mar 2018
Catherine Fox
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Journalist and author
Guest editor Catherine Fox discusses the surge of international activism lead by women since IWD last year
07 Mar 2018
Michelle Jablko, Lynwen Connick, Paula Dwyer & more
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Senior executives, ANZ
We can learn so much from each other, so we asked some of our senior women to share what they’re watching, reading and listening to this IWD.
05 Mar 2018
Jemma Wight
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Production Editor, bluenotes
Flexible working allows women - and men - to create a better work-life balance and ultimately be better workplace leaders.
05 Mar 2018
Maiko Oda
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Editor & Staff Writer, Nikkei Dual
On average in Japan, females make up only 6.9 per cent of management positions – something needs to change.
02 Mar 2018
Darren Sibson
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bluenotes contributor
It’s been a big 12 months for the LGBTI community, and now it’s time to celebrate.
02 Mar 2018
Jemma Wight
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Production Editor, bluenotes
We speak to two ANZ employees about the importance of celebrating all women on IWD.
20 Feb 2018
Shayne Elliott & Jeremy McLeod
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CEO, ANZ & Founder and MD, Nightingale Housing
ANZ’s Shayne Elliott chats to Nightingale Housing’s Jeremy McLeod about environmentally and financially sustainable urban housing development.
19 Feb 2018
James Wilson
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History editor
From being the official bank of the Olympic organising committee to sponsorship of the Australian team, ANZ has a long history with the Olympic Games.
12 Feb 2018
Reina Webster-Iti
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bluenotes contributor
As we celebrate Auckland Pride, we chat to an ANZ staff member about how important it is to have support at work.
06 Feb 2018
Paul Presland
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General Manager of Small Business Banking, ANZ
Former Telstra CEO chats on podcast about the importance of putting the customer at the centre of your culture.
06 Feb 2018
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
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Freelance journalist
The idea technology is something which happens in the IT department won’t cut it anymore.
02 Feb 2018
James Wilson
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History editor
Relaxed dress codes are a la mode in the corporate world but weren’t always in vogue.
29 Jan 2018
Shayne Elliott
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Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
Shayne Elliott’s letter to ANZ staff in the wake of the bank’s submission to the royal commission.
25 Jan 2018
Steve Worthington
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Professor at Swinburne University
ManU and Man City are massive rivals on the field – but their business models shows divided ideologies off field too.
25 Jan 2018
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
We speak to David Higgins, manager of ANZ’s ‘Player Bank’ Australian Open branch.
24 Jan 2018
Isaac Rankin
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Managing Director Commercial and Private Banking, ANZ
Community and corporate support for the economic participation of migrants can lead to a number of benefits for all.
18 Jan 2018
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
From the court to the office, Open champion says the most vital ingredient of success is culture.
15 Jan 2018
Dominique Lyone
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Managing Director at COS Working Spaces
Why the open-plan office sometimes doesn’t work - and what can be done about it.
08 Jan 2018
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
The emotional side of change is often overlooked by businesses - understanding it can help staff embrace the new normal.
19 Dec 2017
John Thwaites
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Our panel of business and community leaders discuss the role of cross-sector partnerships in responding to society’s most-complex social and environmental challenges.
14 Dec 2017
Adam Canwell
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Global Leader, Leadership Consulting, EY
Developing a culture which supports growth is a strategic imperative for businesses.
24 Nov 2017
Christian Venter & Katrina Kolt
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New Ways of Working Technology Transformation Lead & Enterprise Agile Coach, ANZ
How do you teach a company the size of a small nation a new way to operate?
21 Nov 2017
Janak Rogers
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Host, The ANZ Way podcast
Competition in finservices is going to ramp up over the next five years, ANZ digital boss says – but not from within the industry.
15 Nov 2017
Cherelle Murphy
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Senior Economist, ANZ
Successful legislation could inject a huge amount of wedding-related capital into a broad range of sectors.
15 Nov 2017
Shayne Elliott
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Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
In an ANZ staff message, Shayne Elliott says the result celebrates Australian democracy and allows society to move forward together.
14 Nov 2017
Diane Smith-Gander
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Non-executive Director
Businesses – and directors – need to move purposefully and carefully in the modern marketplace.
10 Nov 2017
Alicia Aitken & Greg Szopa
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bluenotes contributors
Good stories can help mitigate social risk in workplaces in times of tremendous change.
09 Nov 2017
Janak Rogers
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Host, The ANZ Way podcast
Tech tools are far less important than leadership mindset when it comes to business change, ANZ digital boss says.
06 Nov 2017
Peter Dalton
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Managing Director Design & Development, ANZx
NPS is a complete system and one which can be tailored and enhanced for individual companies.
02 Nov 2017
Andrew Palmer
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Head of FIG Australia, ANZ
Helping communities thrive can help put professional achievements into perspective.
24 Oct 2017
Diane Smith-Gander
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Non-executive Director
Directors need to contemplate a company’s next big step, beyond the scope of the present strategy.
19 Oct 2017
Alicia Aitken & Greg Szopa
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bluenotes contributors
Atlassian R&D head Dom Price shares the secret to staying relevant within businesses experiencing rapid transformation.
18 Oct 2017
Tony Field
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bluenotes contributor
In Chinese Language Week, we speak to a NZ SME owner who understands the importance of understanding culture.
06 Oct 2017
Briar McCormack
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New Zealand editor
With New Zealand’s Asian population set to double in the next 25 years, embracing cultural traditions are an important part of business.
18 Sep 2017
Anouk De Blieck
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General Manager, Human Resources, ANZ
The workplace of the future won’t be fixed - it will be virtual and flexible – and workers will need to adapt.
08 Sep 2017
Harsh Vardhan
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Manager, Strategic Risk & Enablement, ANZ
As we stand at an important juncture in Australian history advice can be found in the national song.
29 Aug 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
ANZ’s Kath Bray explains on video how ANZ’s new agile method of working will actually work.
25 Aug 2017
Jennifer Farmer
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bluenotes production editor
In part two of our history series we showcase vibrant costumes ANZ staff have worn at Sydney’s Mardi Gras (with bonus flash mob).
24 Aug 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
The role of modern leadership is creating an environment of trust and empowerment, Dr Alicia Fortinberry says.
23 Aug 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Banks face challenges in communication and culture – and earnings - which come simply from being too big and complex.
10 Aug 2017
Elizabeth Masamune
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Managing Director of @Asia Associates Japan
It’s always a challenge to order an improvement in morale - as Japan has found out.
24 Jul 2017
Jodi Fullarton-Healey
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General Counsel, International & Institutional Banking at ANZ
When it comes to feedback at work, everyone wants it but nobody wants to give it.
17 Jul 2017
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
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Freelance journalist
Betrayal, deceit, false flattery, mind games… don’t worry, we’re not talking about work - are we?
14 Jul 2017
Nigel Bowen
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Freelance journalist
For financial advisers, staying positive in an environment of massive change and public scrutiny is tough – but can be done.
07 Jul 2017
Sarah Parker
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Associate Director, Global Product Management, ANZ
One in two mothers still report discrimination at some point during pregnancy.
04 Jul 2017
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
Workers share their experiences of operating in a world with computers in their pockets.
30 Jun 2017
Rod Clement
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Walkley Award-winning cartoonist
Award-winning Illustrator Rod Clement shares his uniquely quirky take on the corporate world. This week: the finer things.
29 Jun 2017
Fiona Smith
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Leadership journalist
Champion footballer and Australian Adam Goodes shares reflections on his career and success.
21 Jun 2017
Fiona Smith
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Leadership journalist
There’s a number of techniques you can use to make ‘courageous’ conversations at work easier.
19 Jun 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Working agile requires business leaders to be much clearer about objectives, ANZ digital exec says.
02 Jun 2017
Rod Clement
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Walkley Award-winning cartoonist
Award-winning Illustrator Rod Clement shares his uniquely quirky take on the corporate world. This week: exterminate!
02 Jun 2017
Lorissa Paulk
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Kate Langan spent five days living on $2 a day and gained a greater perspective on those living in need.
31 May 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Newly appointed ANZ advisory panel member says there’s no difference in the agile approach at a tech or financial services company.
30 May 2017
Kath Walters
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Content marketing consultant and freelance journalist
The world needs power followers just as much as it need leaders. There is too much focus on the latter.
25 May 2017
Katie Lahey
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Executive Chairman, Korn Ferry Australasia
Senior execs share their experiences and pathways through organisations to the very top.
16 May 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Launching her new book with bluenotes, Catherine Fox explains why women don’t need to be fixed – but the system does.
09 May 2017
David Lewis
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Australian business professional and founder of The Mentor List
Work Club founder and CEO Soren Trampedach discusses the future of work – and it is essentially evolve or die.
08 May 2017
Rod Clement
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Walkley Award-winning cartoonist
Award-winning Illustrator Rod Clement shares his uniquely quirky take on the corporate world. This week: missing ingredients.
25 Apr 2017
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
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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.
24 Apr 2017
Nick Godber
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BlueNotes contributing editor
While the debate around the role of banks in societal issues rages in Australia, the global bank HSBC has announced plans to add 10 new gender neutral titles to their retail bank accounts, allowing customers to choose from non-gender specific prefixes like Mx, Msr and Pr.
19 Apr 2017
Katie Bennett-Stenton
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National Marketing Lead, Energy & Resources, Deloitte
Cats are said to have nine lives – but to ensure corporate survival and an upwards professional trajectory it can seem like you need more than nine to keep pace with change.
12 Apr 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
For a central banker, Andy Haldane is a Shakespearean fool – not that he’s foolish, in fact exactly the opposite. Under the guise of speeches with titles like The Dog and the Frisbee he cuts through the pomp of the regulatory court with incisive and often irreverent – and sometimes perplexing – wit.
12 Apr 2017
Gina Westbrook
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Director Strategy Briefings, Euromonitor
There’s never been a better time to be old – or to take advantage of the growing mature-consumer market. Life expectancy is rising around the world, having a major effect on consumer behaviour and the way business approach the market.
11 Apr 2017
Rita Zonius
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Former Head of Internal Digital Communications, ANZ
Want to beat the robots? Speak up. Increasingly, open workplace communication will be a vital tool for knowledge workers hoping to fight off the rise of automation, communications expert Euan Semple says.
11 Apr 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Does business exist just to make money or is there a role for enlightened self-interest and helping communities work?
10 Apr 2017
Leon Gettler
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Veteran and highly regarded management journalist
Emotional intelligence - the ability to identify your own emotions and those of others - is now regarded as a core skill for leaders who want to get the best out of their teams.
07 Apr 2017
Rod Clement
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Walkley Award-winning cartoonist
Award-winning Illustrator Rod Clement shares his uniquely quirky take on the corporate world. This week: a broken arrow.
04 Apr 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Fostering the right culture, nurturing talent inside the organisation and investing in employee engagement are fundamental to the success of modern organisations, ANZ’s newly-appointed Group Executive, Talent & Culture says.
29 Mar 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
The idea everyone can be a leader is a myth, ANZ director Paula Dwyer says, but that doesn’t mean leadership can’t be found at every level of an organisation.
28 Mar 2017
Cameron Cooper
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Business journalist, blogger & editor
They sound like the perfect employee – a wealth of experience, true loyalty and a willingness to accept lower-paying roles just to stay active in the workforce.
28 Mar 2017
Stella Walsh
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Senior Manager, Digital, Data and Social Communications
In an ever-changing world where automation is a reality changing the employment landscape, what skills should business and individuals be focusing on?
27 Mar 2017
Darren Abbruzzese
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Former General Manager Data, ANZ
I had a conversation recently with a colleague who spoke of his wife's anxiety issues. Sometimes her anxiety can be quite overwhelming and he's had to take time off work to care for her.
24 Mar 2017
Rod Clement
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Walkley Award-winning cartoonist
21 Mar 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
There’s been polarised reaction in some quarters of Australia to a letter signed by 30 major business figures in support of marriage equality.
17 Mar 2017
Christine Linden
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General Manager, Regional Business Banking, ANZ Australia
Dylan Alcott’s journey is extraordinary, his story inspiring. An elite athlete, Alcott won his first Paralympic gold medal as a member of the Australian Wheelchair Basketball Team at 17.
10 Mar 2017
Ha Bui
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BlueNotes contributing editor
There is a long history of artists working with business. From the Medicis in the renaissance to institutions like the Catholic Church and now modern corporations, many great and revered works of art have come from these relationships.
07 Mar 2017
Fiona Smith
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Leadership journalist
To celebrate International Women’s day, all week BlueNotes will be guest edited by experienced journalist and author Catherine Fox. We’ll be publishing content on women, their experience in the workplace and the future of equality as the world looks to #beboldforchange. We hope you enjoy it. #IWD2017
03 Mar 2017
Drew Turney
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Freelance journalist
The year 2016 was replete with confident assurances Donald Trump would never win the presidency, from names no less venerable than the New York Times and The Guardian.
28 Feb 2017
Lara Douglas
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Senior Manager Risk Measurement, ANZ
Outside of my day job at ANZ I mentor university students completing their Business Practicum Projects at Melbourne University.
24 Feb 2017
Tanya Deery
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Group General Manager Talent & Culture, ANZ
A couple of years ago we were sitting around the dinner table when my husband, who has an acerbic sense of humour, detailed the annoying habits of a work colleague, to which my 10-year old daughter responded, “Dad, you have such a fixed mindset”.
07 Feb 2017
Lorissa Paulk
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Bullying is not a new concept. However, the internet and social media has given bullies another channel to intimidate and harass.
27 Jan 2017
Rod Clement
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Walkley Award-winning cartoonist
24 Jan 2017
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
On a seemingly normal Tuesday, George (not his real name) attempted to access his internet banking when he came across a message saying his account had been locked for security reasons and encouraging him to contact his bank immediately.
16 Jan 2017
Matt Nicol
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bluenotes contributor
The Australian Open crowd hushes as the second set begins. The centre-court match at Rod Laver Arena is all it was promised: the players are ranked nearly identically by the WTP; both showed comparably good form in the run up to the Open; and the first set tie-break was decided by the narrowest possible margin - just two points. It’s anyone’s game! Or is it?
23 Dec 2016
Shayne Elliott, Maile Carnegie, David Gonski
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Chief Executive Officer & Group Executive Digital Banking & Chairman, ANZ
Reading lists are a fixture of the holiday period and BlueNotes’ list last year, sourced from ANZ directors and senior executives, was extremely popular. But this year we thought why limit the festive list to reading?
20 Dec 2016
Anna Green
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CEO Philippines, ANZ
The lack of diversity in Australian boardrooms means business is not making the most of the talent the country has to offer, according to Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner.
19 Dec 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Issues of sustainability, trust and social licence are increasingly important across the political and business environment - as developments in the US, Britain and Australia upend long-held conventional wisdom about how it all works.
13 Dec 2016
Leon Gettler
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Veteran and highly regarded management journalist
Employee loyalty is not what it used to be. In fact, it’s been declining for several years.
13 Dec 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Trust, purpose, social licence, corporate responsibility - no matter which business or political forum you attend, these themes are likely to be aired, if not formally then in discussions before and after.
12 Dec 2016
Andrew Woolf
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Global Human Capital Lead, Accenture Financial Services
Most managers resent the many hours they’re obliged to spend reviewing the performance of their team. Many employees would laugh off these reviews as artificial and retrospective if they didn’t have such an impact on their increases and bonuses.
09 Dec 2016
Rod Clement
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Walkley Award-winning cartoonist
08 Dec 2016
Tim Nelson
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CEO, Korn Ferry Australasia
Our workplaces are being disrupted at an unprecedented pace and keeping on top of trends is a non-negotiable part of 21st century management for leaders.
05 Dec 2016
Ha Bui
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Financial institutions have a crucial role to play in combating domestic violence by helping ensure victims have the financial security they need to escape their predicament.
02 Dec 2016
Mike Irving
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Performance coach
People in leadership across all businesses tend to have similar goals - to continually improve productivity and workplace culture. It’s an important issue as business growth can be stunted by a lack of employee motivation.
02 Dec 2016
Christine Linden
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General Manager, Regional Business Banking, ANZ Australia
Almost 20 per cent of Australians, around four million people, live with a disability.
02 Dec 2016
Fiona Smith
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Leadership journalist
As the chief design officer for Apple, Jony Ive is one of the most-celebrated and well-rewarded creative thinkers alive. He works from a glass cube, with a laptop and handful of coloured pencils.
25 Nov 2016
Fred Ohlsson
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Group Executive, ANZ Australia
Nearly three million people across Australia face exclusion from mainstream banking and financial products.
18 Nov 2016
Greg Dodds
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Ex-Senior Trade Commissioner, Japan & Vietnam veteran
Major-General Jim Hughes died in his sleep about two months ago. The funeral was well attended but attracted no interest from the media. After all, the Army has dozens of generals so one would hardly be missed, right?
10 Nov 2016
Rob Molyneux & Mark Linter
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Group General Manager Risk Metrics & Risk Control and Policy Specialist, ANZ
Airlines are naturally and understandably risk averse but this doesn’t translate to more complicated risk frameworks and processes. Their approach is simpler than that. Are there lessons for banks?
27 Oct 2016
Lisa Boothby
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Head of Enterprise Development, Social Traders
At around 6 per cent, unemployment in Australia is not bad. However, unemployment of new migrants, indigenous Australians, youth, ex-offenders and people with disabilities is unacceptably high, ranging from 15 per cent in some groups to over 50 per cent in others.
26 Oct 2016
Jeremy Leibler
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Partner, Arnold Bloch Leibler
Shareholder activism exists in Australia but targets, particularly successful ones, are not often large. The relatively low public awareness of such activism is probably best explained by the finding 85 per cent of companies targeted by activists since 2013 had a market capitalisation of less than $A331 million.
06 Sep 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
The G20’s deliberations over the weekend demonstrated the financial crisis is not over some eight years later. Global growth is fragile, monetary policy fraught, trade barriers are growing not falling (for example, in the year up to the latest confab, G20 governments imposed 350 new measures discriminating against foreign commercial interests, almost four times the number in 2009).
05 Sep 2016
Ha Bui
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Test and learn is one of the mantras of modern business but for disabled athletes it is an essential ingredient when there are no templates that translate directly from able bodied programs.
08 Aug 2016
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
Australia must lift its game in the fight against corruption. The nation needs faster and more-visible law enforcement, increased disclosure and continued cooperation between business and anti-fraud groups.
13 Jul 2016
Catherine Fox
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Journalist and author
A woman working for a large company tells her teammates she’s off to a meeting and will be away for an hour or so.
28 Jun 2016
Tareq Muhmood
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CEO Korea & Managing Director Global Subsidiaries, ANZ
Ever since the financial crisis in 2008, I have been troubled by elements of the banking industry and the ongoing debates around 'too big to fail' and moral hazard. The cost of the bailout continues to hang over the economy and impact broader society.
17 Jun 2016
Sarah Dunn
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Head of Group Services - Australia, ANZ
“There were once 25 bankers in the dark…."
14 Jun 2016
Francesca Rizzo
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Innovation around technology is changing marketplaces but innovation around business models is what will make companies stand out.
14 Jun 2016
Chris Rowlands
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Social Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Manager, World Vision Australia
Impact investing is intended to do what it says: make an impact on social or environmental problems. New and innovative investment models are indeed delivering positive outcomes for society as well as a financial return, developing commercially viable models of philanthropy along the way.
07 Jun 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
In the last month, both China and India have emphasised the critical role green investing can play in addressing environmental damage, carbon intensity and global warming; the global banking Financial Stability Board has expanded its climate-related financial disclosure task force; and a major investor group has published seven climate change policy priorities.
02 Jun 2016
Paul Edwards
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Manager Operations Strategy, ANZ
Compliance. Is there any other word which can raise the hackles of workers so quickly? Take a straw poll of colleagues and you’ll find compliance issues are among the most common workplace gripes.
24 May 2016
Fiona Smith
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Leadership journalist
If you want to know why only one in 50 fathers take up paid parental leave, listen in on the conversations they have with their male colleagues and bosses.
19 May 2016
Leon Gettler
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Veteran and highly regarded management journalist
A mentally healthy workplace is good for business. Research shows it leads to less absenteeism, more-engaged workers, better productivity and morale. It reduces the chances of a company being hit with workplace disability claims and fines for breaches of health and safety laws.
19 May 2016
Darren Baird & Steve Price
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Head of Customer Experience & Senior Manager Everyday Banking, ANZ
Many businesses approach acceptance of people with disability as a means to develop a community connection, but the true business case for tackling discrimination is more straightforward. People with a disability are consumers, investors and employees and by addressing barriers a business can increase its market for customers and employees.
09 May 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Businesses are beginning to recognise their important role in preventing family violence, former Australian of the year Rosie Batty says, as statistics demonstrate the incidence of victims among their staff.
09 May 2016
Bronwyn van der Merwe
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Fjord Director Australia, Accenture Interactive
Rapid technological change and digital disruption have increased the pace of changing customer expectations so much they have become liquid - a rising tide of expectations drawn from your customer’s very best experiences across all industries.
05 May 2016
Jemma Enright & Mark Hand
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Co-founder, MoneyBrilliant & Managing Director Corporate & Commercial Banking, ANZ
In an age of disruption, can big companies ever really innovate? Or does the culture of incumbency run too deep? And how can they survive if they won’t?
02 May 2016
Shane White
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Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
For as long as humans have used payment systems there has been fraud. IBM Director of Counter Fraud Management Constantin von Altrock says the two sides are likely to fight each other forever - like Antonio Prohias’ Spy vs Spy. But there are steps the sector can take to mitigate the damage.
02 May 2016
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
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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.
26 Apr 2016
Dr Jim Minifie
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
The rise of the sharing economy can save Australians more than $A500 million on taxi bills, help them to put underused property and other assets to work, and increase employment and income for people on the fringe of the job market.
26 Apr 2016
Cynthia Balogh
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National Program Manager Women in Global Business, Austrade
Female entrepreneurs are finding it harder than ever to access the capital they need to succeed in business. Meanwhile, the window for traditional lenders to take advantage of this unmet demand is closing amid the rise of new funding methods.
19 Apr 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Death is difficult to talk about. Even the quality media, which have long prided themselves on clarity and simple language, now regularly refer to “passing” rather than dying. There’re more euphemisms for dropping off the twig today than even Monty Python could cope with.
19 Apr 2016
Guy Boyd
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Head of Financial Crime, ANZ
It’s an all-too-common argument touted in defence of bribery and corruption: it’s almost impossible to conduct business successfully and efficiently in certain markets, without paying bribes. Or so they say.
12 Apr 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Australia’s banking system came through the financial crisis as well as any in the world. Taxpayers ultimately made money out of a government guarantee program, institutional failure – notably of market-funded mortgage specialists – was digested by the system.
01 Apr 2016
Sarah Imm
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Founder, Vélo-à-Porter
One of my weekly chores growing up in Minnesota was ironing my father's business shirts. He was a stylish man and his pinpoint oxford shirts were one-hundred per cent cotton with a fine finish.
31 Mar 2016
Katie Lahey
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Executive Chairman, Korn Ferry Australasia
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. After a crisis everyone says they saw the warning signs; the red flags were there, hiding in plain sight, accessible to those closest to them if they had known what to look for.
29 Mar 2016
Jo Mikleus
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Former Chief of Staff, ANZ
Many elements make up the perfect team. The key is bringing together depth of experience, global mindsets, external perspectives, gender diversity as well as other dimensions such as leadership, curiosity, passion and drive.
29 Mar 2016
Todd Tobias
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Former Director Business Projects Global Markets, ANZ
When we think 'digital', we often think of beautiful apps and websites containing cutting-edge functionality, delivered via simple user interfaces striving to create a flawless experience and, in doing so, encouraging customers to engage.
11 Mar 2016
Kath Walters
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Content marketing consultant and freelance journalist
There's a fine line between being a 'giver' at work and being a doormat, as Adam Grant explains in his book Give and Take. Whatever side of the line your actions fall makes a big difference to your career prospects.
04 Mar 2016
Leon Gettler
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Veteran and highly regarded management journalist
There are many stories of companies failing in Asia because of messages lost in translation. The cultural difference can be stark.
26 Feb 2016
Terrie Lloyd
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CEO, Japan Travel KK
In the blizzard of newsworthy announcements about venture capital investments, massive business deals and takeovers, it is easy to forget the 90 per cent of business people who don't hit the news but form the bedrock of our society.
15 Jan 2016
Paul G Edwards
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Publisher, BlueNotes
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.
15 Jan 2016
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
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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.
08 Jan 2016
Catherine Fox
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Journalist and author
It was once as regular as the annual corporate Festive season card. Some drunk employee would photocopy part of their anatomy, proposition a colleague or abuse the boss at the end-of-year knees up and word would gradually filter out about the ugly yet familiar aftermath.
24 Dec 2015
Carolyn Ive
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BlueNotes contributing editor
In the developed world women are struggling to be equally represented in the economy across senior executive roles, retirement savings or political influence. But in some parts of the developing world, the story is different.
15 Dec 2015
Narelle Hooper
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Co-Author, New Women, New Men, New Economy
Hubs, incubators and start-ups are all phrases looming large in the innovation policy sphere right now but you have to ask, who is in on them?
09 Dec 2015
Ian Rogers
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Editor, Banking Day
Departing ANZ CEO Mike Smith says attitudes toward risk at ANZ have changed significantly in his time at the bank.
07 Dec 2015
Catherine Fox
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Journalist and author
Calling a couple of her team over to her desk in an open-plan office, a senior woman in a professional services firm briefs them on the next steps of a project. After the short meeting, a male colleague sitting nearby asks her to keep her voice down in future because she sounds just like his wife nagging him.
02 Dec 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
An enduring theme in corporate Australia, picked up by a new prime minister, is concern around a lack of innovation, often sheeted back to a lack of risk appetite.
24 Nov 2015
Marcia Levinstock
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Founder and Managing Editor of Content, Primary Ideas
As my toes wriggle contently in their (Italian, designer) leather sandals, freed from the shackles of sky-high Tom Ford pumps, I praise Casual Friday.
23 Nov 2015
Nicola Watkinson
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Minister Commercial and Senior Trade & Investment Commissioner South Asia, Austrade
In my role as Senior Trade Commissioner, South Asia with Austrade, I'm often asked for tips on working in the region and my answer is always the same: know the place. Get your feet on the ground. Be prepared to come to India. Come a lot.
23 Oct 2015
Anouk De Blieck
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General Manager, Human Resources, ANZ
Someone once told me Russians are like coconuts. It didn't make sense until I arrived in Russia.
21 Oct 2015
Sanjoy Sen
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Managing Director for Retail Banking Asia Pacific
Like Australians, the Chinese middle class have a dream and this dream is becoming the new centre of Australia's relationship with China. As their ranks swell their aspirations begin to closely resemble any other developed country albeit with a Chinese twist.
14 Oct 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Recently one of the smartest executives I know, who is always ahead of trend curves, looked at me bewildered. “I can't keep up anymore," he said. “I don't know how."
14 Oct 2015
Peter Booth
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Provost and Senior Vice President, Sydney University of Technology
Australia's largest trading partner, China, has a strategic focus to shift from 'Made in China' towards 'Designed in China'. Australia's 4th largest trading partner, South Korea, has established 17 major innovation centres in 17 major cities across the country to quickly develop its creative economy and creative industries.
13 Oct 2015
Andrew Geczy
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Former CEO International and Institutional Banking, ANZ
China's middle class will more than double its spending by 2030, lifting consumption as a portion of GDP to nearly 50 per cent from just 38 per cent in 2014.
12 Oct 2015
Louise Eyres
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Group General Manager Marketing, ANZ
China's massive middle class is changing the nature of global business. And sport, one of the biggest global businesses, is no exception.
09 Oct 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
BlueNotes and PwC Capital Edge are presenting a series of discussions and roundtables with industry experts, ranging across the wide capital markets universe from start-ups and entrepreneurs to risk and digitalisation.
01 Oct 2015
Andrew Parker
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Partner & Asia Practice Leader, PWC
Having lived and worked in Asia for a decade and a half, I'm very aware Australians do not adapt easily to the uniquely 'Asian Way' when it comes to business dealings. Asia is obviously different but uncomfortably so for many of those businesses with which I've worked.
29 Sep 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Launched in the United Kingdom in 2010 with the goal of achieving 30 per cent women on FTSE-100 boards by the end of 2015, the 30% Club migrated to Australia earlier this year with events in Sydney and Melbourne.
28 Sep 2015
Charles Happell
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Managing Director, Happell Media
The AFL Commission tried hard to dissuade the Melbourne Cricket Club from staging three big-time soccer internationals at the MCG in July. Now we can see why.
25 Sep 2015
Martin Reeves
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Senior Partner, The Boston Consulting Group & Director, Bruce Henderson Institute
It's no secret the pace of change today is head-spinningly fast. The stakes are higher than ever: one third of US public corporations will not survive the next five years. In the declining number of industries that remain stable and predictable, the classical approach to strategy and leadership taught in business schools still applies.
17 Sep 2015
Helen Clark
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Freelance journalist & former Asian correspondent
We are in the Asian Century but what does that mean? For Australia, there is a challenge in simply recognising the importance of understanding Asia and the varied cultures and the languages. But what is Australia's real understanding of the region and is it greater than it might have been 20 or 30 years ago?
16 Sep 2015
Richard Holdcroft
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Freelance journalist
Chinese tourists spent $US130 billion on their international travels last year – equivalent to the combined GDPs of the world's 50 smallest countries. Experts are predicting this armada of tourism dollars will almost double in just three years.
09 Sep 2015
Elizabeth Masamune
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Managing Director of @Asia Associates Japan
Minami started work at Takashimaya department store in Osaka, Japan in October 2013. Since then she has dealt with over 1,000 customers, honing her sales skills. On her third stint at the store in May this year she was reassigned to the men's shirt department, with a sales target of ¥500,000.
09 Sep 2015
Laurice Temple
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CEO, National Association of Women in Construction
It is no secret the Australian construction industry is very male-dominated. But what may not be fully understood by the general public is that we don't have any collective overt initiatives and goals in place to increase the participation of women.
28 Aug 2015
Mark Bennett
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Head of Aus Agribusiness, ANZ
Beef is big in China but a recent trip with a group of farmers, traders, processors and consultants revealed some fascinating insights and challenged our thinking around the headline statistics and stories about China food production and consumption.
20 Aug 2015
Matt Boss
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Former Managing Director Products and Marketing, ANZ
Almost every successful company has a firm understanding of strategy and values. But how many have a clear, simple and stated organisational purpose?
19 Aug 2015
Susie Babani
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Former Chief Human Resources Officer at ANZ
A couple of months ago the CEO of my company declared all roles should be flexible. We've had policies on flexible working for a number of years but usage was sporadic and very much depended on a “Leadership Lottery” - if you had a leader who "got it" then flex was just part of the day to day norms and no big deal.
17 Aug 2015
Andrew Grill
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Global Managing Partner, IBM Social Consulting
Ask yourself this question - is digital in your company's DNA? If the answer is 'no' or even 'not really' then this story is for you.
13 Aug 2015
Alison Larsson
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Former CRO Global Technology, Services and Operations, ANZ
I recall in my early days at ANZ I returned late one day from an interstate trip. My fellow travellers included a very senior management board executive, his wife and another female ANZ employee who, like me, was a working mother with young children.
07 Aug 2015
Kristin Stubbins & Chris Dodd
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Innovation has the power to drive economic growth, create wealth and lift employment in Australia, as it has done in the past and is currently doing for countries like the United States, China, Germany and New Zealand.
05 Aug 2015
Karen Boudville
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Editor, ANZ Your World
After a long personal journey, being finally accepted for her gender at work changed MariMar Lamit's life. A little less than a year ago, Lamit faced a tough life decision: to live a lie while working in a profession she loved or come out as a transgender woman and risk her job.
30 Jul 2015
James Rose
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Freelance journalist, Newsmodo
Recently three of Steve Jobs' old business cards were sold for $US10,500. Ironically this happened as Apple spearheads a push towards the use of e-cards which could effectively make hard-copy business cards obsolete.
29 Jul 2015
Mike Smith
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Former Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to present Serena Williams the winner’s cheque after she won the Australian Open final for a sixth time. What made it particularly satisfying was that the cheque was for the same amount as Novak Djokovic’s the next evening.
28 Jul 2015
Emma Davine
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Head of Government & Commercialisation, Transaction Banking
I have been unusually obsessed with Asia for many years. For me, it is the energy, pace, cultural diversity, the quirkiness, heat, and of course, the food. In my early years working in the region my eyes were really opened by spending time meeting customers, people and stakeholders throughout ANZ's regional footprint.
24 Jul 2015
Suzette Corr
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Group General Manager Institutional Human Resources, ANZ
It was a while ago, but I often tell colleagues that as a student at the University of Western Australia I was more likely to be sitting in an economics lecture next to a peer from Asia than I was another woman from Australia.
13 Jul 2015
Bruce Hassall
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CEO, PwC New Zealand
An ageing population is one of the key megatrends affecting New Zealand, Australia and most other developed countries. Like most megatrends it's often viewed as a threat, an ageing elephant in the room.
10 Jul 2015
Marcia Levinstock
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Founder and Managing Editor of Content, Primary Ideas
Those of a certain age may well remember one of those slightly twee advertising campaigns for breakfast cereals asking “How many do you do?”. It referred to the number of healthy Weet-Bix in your breakfast bowl each morning.
01 Jul 2015
Mark Evans
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Managing Director Transaction Banking, ANZ
We're all fascinated by how radically technology may change our lives in the future. From the smartphone to driverless cars to 3D printing we're constantly rethinking how gadgets might make daily life easier.
26 Jun 2015
Jane Grace
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NZ Content Manager, ANZ
I'm a socially awkward child. I'm sitting in the corner of the classroom drawing pictures in the back of my library book while my classmates play games outside and the school counsellor hovers in the doorway with a concerned look on her face.
23 Jun 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
At his peak in the mid 90s, David Letterman, the American talk show host, had around eight million viewers for his nightly variety act. Eight million people tuning in at the same time, households together around a TV screen.
15 Jun 2015
Stefan Herrick
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Senior Manager External Communications New Zealand, ANZ
In five years social media and e-commerce have exploded as the channels by which hundreds of millions of China's newly connected citizens seek out and buy products.
02 Jun 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
The issue of trust in banking has been headline news globally in recent months and particularly acute in Australia last week.
20 May 2015
Susie Babani
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Former Chief Human Resources Officer at ANZ
I have an hypothesis about the glass ceiling. It is not, as is generally assumed, something women suddenly bang their heads against after 25 years of hard slog, ongoing promotions and successful performance in the corporate world - causing us to just be pipped from the very top jobs.
05 May 2015
Fred Schebesta
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Co-founder and Director, finder.com.au
From nap rooms and free massages to ping pong tables and giant slides, innovative companies such as Google and Facebook offer amazing office perks and they do it for one simple reason: the value they get in return.
05 May 2015
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Global diversity campaign 30% Club is launching in Australia, hoping to lead the nation's most influential company directors in a push to see women make up 30 per cent of ASX 200 boards by 2018.
29 Apr 2015
Peter Hanami
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Author & consultant
As a small-business owner, I have found business insights or 'light bulb' moments can arrive anytime: lining up at the supermarket check-out, driving and listening to the radio or – rewardingly - when you are experiencing something new for the first time.
21 Apr 2015
Vishnu Mohan
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Former CEO Pacific, ANZ
Humans are resilient. Our ability to face adversity, regroup, adapt, recover and thrive again is nothing short of remarkable.
15 Apr 2015
Paul Edwards
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Manager Operations Strategy, ANZ
We have been publishing BlueNotes for a year and it has been an extraordinary venture. But not just for us here at BlueNotes, more broadly in the world of communications – of all hues.
31 Mar 2015
Leonie Lethbridge
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CEO Cambodia, ANZ
Too much China commentary focusses on the magnitude or rate of change of growth in the country (or rather the lack of it), the risks in the economy and the implications for global growth.
23 Mar 2015
Sarah Court
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ANZ Head of Human Resources New Zealand, ANZ
'The war for talent' is a phrase that has become something of a cliché but in essence it's true: in competitive industries it's hard to hire brilliant people.
17 Mar 2015
Juliet Bourke
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Partner, Deloitte
This week I was giving a conference presentation. I give these a lot. As usual, the MC introduced me to the audience by reading out my bio and stumbling over the standard description that comes after my name: “Partner, Human Capital, Deloitte".
12 Mar 2015
Pankajam Sridevi & Vasanthi Srinivasan
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Managing Director Bangalore Hub, ANZ & Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management
Before International Women's Day, the managing director of ANZ's Bangalore hub Pankajam Sridevi sat down with associate professor at the Indian Institute of Management Vasanthi Srinivasan to talk about the state of play for women in the workplace in India.
10 Mar 2015
Susie Babani
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Former Chief Human Resources Officer at ANZ
Successful multiculturalism is obviously a lot more than a taste for foreign spices.
05 Mar 2015
Suzette Corr
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Group General Manager Institutional Human Resources, ANZ
“How many more studies do we need to know that men overestimate their potential and women underestimate theirs –when facts show their performance is on par?"
27 Feb 2015
Tareq Muhmood
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CEO Korea & Managing Director Global Subsidiaries, ANZ
I recently enjoyed a coffee with a treasurer of a major US firm in Dubai. She is a leader I admire (and in fact I'm trying to encourage her to write the next version of 'lean-in' or 'pull out' :) ).
We became involved in discussing how we both lead virtual teams located around the world and what we have learned.
25 Feb 2015
Andrew Carlton
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Vice president of customer service, American Express
Close to one billion new consumers will play a major role in shaping global demand for businesses over the next five years, according to Deloitte, as developing economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America continue to see rapid growth of their middle classes.
29 Jan 2015
Jonathan Harvey
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Former Group General Manager Executive Development, ANZ
Gender would be irrelevant when hiring if we lived in a perfect system where unconscious and conscious bias didn’t exist. But we don’t, Jonathan Harvey writes. So what can be done?
23 Jan 2015
Stefan Herrick
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Senior Manager External Communications New Zealand, ANZ
Winton, a small rural service town in New Zealand’s Deep South, has seen an influx of new residents in recent years. They are farm workers and managers from the Philippines, brought in to fill a shortfall in workers on the region’s booming dairy farms.
22 Jan 2015
Elizabeth Masamune
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Managing Director of @Asia Associates Japan
I know this is said often in passing but it is critical I should start by repeating it. It must be recognised the term “Asia” has little meaning beyond a geographical blob on a map – it is a Western colonial concept.
07 Jan 2015
BlueNotes reporter
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China’s emerging affluent youth are online – everywhere and all of the time – there is huge potential for online businesses to take advantage of this growing segment. ChinaSkinny lays out the landscape.
16 Dec 2014
Susie Babani
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Former Chief Human Resources Officer at ANZ
In one of the more interesting social experiments I can think of, a male Australian breakfast TV presenter has confessed to wearing the same suit every week day for a year. (He did get it cleaned!).
12 Dec 2014
Jason Murphy
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Publisher, Thomas the Think Engine
Dad, Where Are We Going? The answer to that question could be crucial to the economic future of Australia and New Zealand.
09 Dec 2014
Fred Ohlsson
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Group Executive, ANZ Australia
You don’t need to walk far in Auckland to see the face of the city has changed almost beyond recognition in recent decades.
08 Dec 2014
Jacqueline Gillespie
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Senior Client Partner at Korn/Ferry International
The coffee catch up is an integral - indeed inescapable - medium for business networking in Australia. A stroll through the central business district of any major Australian city confirms the switch from the long lunch to the short break with a short black. Or a latte at least.
03 Dec 2014
Alan Shields
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Chief Data Officer, RFi Group
When is distribution like a circus act? When it’s about juggling and balancing.
02 Dec 2014
Steve Shepherd
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Employment market analyst, Randstad
There’s a new reality at play in the modern Australian workforce: as technology envelops all things, fewer and fewer jobs are being worked in isolation. Almost every role requires some level of coaching, mentoring or support from others to generate collective results.
28 Nov 2014
Shaheem Black
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Fellow, Australian National University
In the past decade the worldwide yoga industry has become a multibillion- dollar business. Yet, ironically, the one country where yoga does not yet thrive commercially is the very place from which yoga is thought to originate: India. Why should this be?
24 Nov 2014
Daniel Flynn
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Co-Founder and Managing Director, Thankyou Group
Social media is changing the world and one Australian start-up has shown just how successful a business can become by approaching it with an effective, if unconventional, strategy.
13 Nov 2014
Jonathan Harvey
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Former Group General Manager Executive Development, ANZ
On a return flight from Singapore recently, where I had been interviewing candidates for ANZ’s Generalist Bankers Program (a Management Trainee project designed to build an internal pipeline of future Country CEOs), I reflected on the fact 70 per cent of the 700 applicants for the 2015 intake and eight out of the 10 candidates who we had decided to progress to the final stage of the selection process, speak an Asian language in addition to English.
30 Oct 2014
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
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Freelance journalist
When somebody decides to change employer, chances are that high on the list of reasons will be dissatisfaction with their immediate manager.
23 Oct 2014
Susie Babani
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Former Chief Human Resources Officer at ANZ
Leaders can no longer lead with command and control. Here’re five things employees look for in leadership.
22 Oct 2014
Russell Thomas
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CEO and Managing Director, Finsia
Women in the industry are paid less than their male counterparts and remain underrepresented in leadership roles.
21 Oct 2014
Carolyn Bendall
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Head of Marketing Australia, ANZ
To celebrate its sponsorship of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in February this year, ANZ commissioned artists to transform 10 ATMs into fabulous GAYTMs.
21 Oct 2014
Nicole Franklin
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Australia’s 21st Prime Minister Gough Whitlam died Tuesday aged 98. One of the most colourful and transformative figures in Australian domestic politics, he was also the first politician to re-engage with China in the modern age. He visited as Opposition leader and Prime Minister. Here are 10 of his most prescient insights following his 1971 visit.
17 Oct 2014
Steve Worthington
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Professor at Swinburne University
Football – real, international football – is the richest sport on the planet. Not just because the sums involved in leagues and players are huge, but because it is played so widely. Only the United Nations rivals the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
14 Oct 2014
Jennifer Farmer
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bluenotes production editor
Almost 45 per cent of Australians between the ages of 16 and 85 experience a mental health condition at some point in their lifetime. That's almost half the population.
13 Oct 2014
Pam Rebecca
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Former General Manager of Digital ANZ
As someone who has been interested in computing and technology since I was a teenager (in the days when a teenager interested in technology was so not cool), I cannot imagine living in a more exciting time as the world makes a tectonic shift towards digital.
10 Oct 2014
Suzette Corr
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Group General Manager Institutional Human Resources, ANZ
I would rather break a leg than do self-promotion. So when I was invited by ANZ CEO Mike Smith to take part in a new program called Notable Women, I felt a bit uncomfortable. Even the title made me cringe.
06 Oct 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
It’s a fact: everyone knows women get to the top and slam the door rudely behind them, preventing other women joining them. Or so I am constantly told in conversations exploring that vexing problem of improving female representation in senior levels of business.
30 Sep 2014
Suzette Corr
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Group General Manager Institutional Human Resources, ANZ
Years ago I had a colleague who had a plaque on her desk that read, “If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me”. I found it vaguely irritating and dismissed it as pop psychology.
25 Sep 2014
Colum Rice
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Partner, PwC
The use of data and analytics is driving real change in the way companies operate and how critical business decisions are made by their leaders.
23 Sep 2014
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
ANZ CEO Mike Smith has defended the health of the Chinese property market, and warned against extrapolating small amounts of regional data and applying it across the country.