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Tom Skotnicki discovers that managing one of the largest cruise ships in the world requires both outstanding leadership skills and an unwavering focus on safety and security

A luxury liner is one of the most unique environments on earth. Captain Sverre Ryan, who is responsible for one of the world’s largest cruise ships, Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas, projects an aura of calmness that is in contrast with the frenetic activity taking place on board.

So are we finally at a tipping point to address the persistent dearth of women in leadership positions across Australia?

Every few years we ask our members to tell us what they think of AIM’s monthly magazine, Management Today, and for the first time this year our online offering, www.mtmag.com.au.

We’d greatly appreciate your feedback on what you do and don’t like about both offerings and what you’d like to see more or less of. It will help refine and adapt them both so we continue to provide insightful and relevant content to our members.

Guest post by Fiona Triaca and Erica Davis, Naked Ambition

Long black, flat white, decaf soy latte… most of us live for the stuff. Our barista is often more respected than our barrister. And definitely more serious.

But what you may not realise is that this humble bean can hold the key to your career success. It’s all down to that old networking kingpin, the coffee meeting.

By Tony Gleeson

There are 500,000 reasons why Australia needs to solve the performance problems of the nation’s middle managers. That’s the number of middle managers there are in Australia and our latest survey research project confirms that many of these managers are underachieving.

Efforts to improve the productivity and performance of Australian organisations are being stymied by inefficient and under skilled middle managers according to the findings of a major research survey released today.

Recently being selected as one of the AIM30 Under 30 has given me cause to reflect on what it takes to achieve success at a young age.

The benefits of a good night’s sleep are well documented, but getting enough rest is still a challenge for many. Amy Birchall reports

If you hit the snooze button more often than you wake up feeling refreshed and ready to face the day, you’re not alone.

Respiratory and sleep physician at the Institute for Breathing and Sleep Dr Fergal O’Donoghue says most Australian adults aren’t getting enough sleep – and it’s because they fail to make it a priority.

Beating a much bigger opponent or turning a hopeless situation around are better odds than you think, according to intriguing research by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, as Gerard McManus reports

The idea of unlikely victory, of the insignificant defeating the mighty and of triumph over adversity, is part of the human condition.

They are the things that give people the hope to persevere – against all odds.