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Calling all talent! In a time of record employment levels and acute labour shortages, employers are being forced to devise new strategies to find and keep the best. By Cameron Cooper

The days of job candidates sitting nervously in a hostile reception area waiting for a grilling at their job interview may be over.

With the tentacles of environmental impact now stretching to all industries, it’s time to consider your options for contributing to a greener future. By Professor Lee D. Parker Global warming, the greenhouse effect, drought, pollution and land degradation are all hot topics of contemporary public discussion and policy debate. We are well accustomed to calls for business to become engaged in environmental protection and conservation. To many managers such issues may appear minor or irrelevant to their areas of business.

Harvard Business School gave Julie Bishop a desire to serve the country. She speaks to Patrick Cullen about the move from a private life to a very public one.

Julie Bishop was born and educated in South Australia. She was appointed Minister for Education, Science and Training in January 2006. Here she talks about education as a driver of Australian prosperity, workplace flexibility and work/life issues.

Q: How did you find it moving from a private existence to a very public one?

Ensuring staff wellbeing sounds like commonsense. But companies that value happy workers need to have a policy flexible enough to accommodate the varied needs of today’s employees.

In tangible and intangible ways, work means fulfilment to many people. For management, the demands of the modern workplace means consideration for issues of staff wellbeing. The following two features look at what wellbeing means, and the dramatic impact that depression and stress have on people and industry in Australia.

A model for virtuous leadership is made up of seven characteristics: courage, integrity, humility, compassion, passion, wisdom and humour. By Carolyn Barker AM

Today’s organisations need to change their DNA and be brave enough to think about a new “type” of leadership, as well as a new framework to evaluate good leadership. The Virtuous Leadership Framework lays a provocative groundwork for such action.

What does it mean to be at the helm of affairs today? In the rapidly changing world of business, ideas about leaders and their style of operation are keeping pace with a democratic world. By Deborah Tarrant

David Gonski AO, leading corporate chairman, director, university chancellor and philanthropist, talks with Jennifer Alexander about the chairman's role and the things that matter to him in business and society.

When it comes to successfully marketing a premium brand or product, advertising is rarely an option. Instead it's all about networking. Chris Sheedy reports.

Soon after Carole Renouf assumed the position of Director of the Garvan Research Foundation, she was faced with a challenging conundrum. A major part of her job description was to raise money for the Garvan Institute and to inform and educate the public about the role the institute plays. But many of the Garvan's main donors, research had shown, had a different point of view.

Physical and electronic security is becoming more complex even as it remains paramount to business interests. David Braue discusses the changing nature of total corporate protection.

In January this year, as part of a guerilla marketing campaign in Boston, electronic devices were used depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force cartoon. Boston authorities, thinking the devices looked suspicious, closed down roads and waterways to investigate. It paralysed the city.

Australian managerial talent is making its presence felt in the world market in a wide variety of sectors and at all levels of business. Darren Baguley investigates the reasons why Aussies are sought after in the world of management.