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Can you really be the person people can't live without? Gerard McManus inspects some of the best thinking on indispensability. First, let's clear up a few fallacies.

The boss of Qantas copped flak when he took on the unions, but his mission was clear: win the bigger battle. By Tom Skotnicki. Last October Alan Joyce alienated himself from large sections of his staff, customers and the community by deciding to ground the network. It was a radical decision that damaged one of Australia's most valued brands. But will he be proved right and emerge as the airline's saviour? The lockout turned the Qantas chief executive into a virtual pariah.

Research suggests we make wiser judgements before lunch, before we tire. Too late? Just sleep on it. By Amy Birchall.

Managers and executives spend their day making critical decisions - what markets should we enter? What should our strategy be? What product lines or services should we be focusing on? How do we make our organisation different from our competitors?

Thanks to the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn, the recruitment industry is rebooting. Leon Gettler ponders the future of the résumé as we know it.

Nick Greiner is charged with fixing NSW's infrastructure mess. He describes his plans to Tom Skotnicki.

In an economy constrained by the skills shortage, grey is the new black, writes Leon Gettler

The big challenge for over 50-year-olds in today's job market is to make themselves irresistible to prospective employers. It's no easy task – age discrimination is against the law in Australia but it is still rampant in the Australian job market. It can be done, but it takes the right attitude. It's an issue for job seekers and managers.

Forty years after she helped lead the women's movement in Australia, Susan Ryan is playing a pivotal role in ensuring the rights of older workers. Tom Skotnicki reports

In the 1960s and 1970s, Susan Ryan was in the vanguard of the women's movement in Australia and now 40 years later she is spearheading another push.

A novel approach to conflict resolution is helping drive one of Australia’s biggest soccer clubs to the top, writes Malcolm Schmidtke

Once purely a Japanese phenomenon, 'karoshi' is becoming an increasingly large issue for workplaces across Asia and even Australia, writes Amy Birchall The Japanese call it karoshi, in Korea it is known as gwarosa and the Chinese call it guolaosi. In English, they all translate to "death from overwork". What began as a post-war phenomenon in Japan now claims tens of thousands of lives worldwide each year, including in Australia. Karoshi victims are usually overworked, overstressed and have a less than enviable work-life balance.

David Rock says he never deliberately set out to become a guru in the field of "neuro leadership", it kind of just happened that way. "I didn't set out to create a new field of science or psychology, but the more work we did to bring evidence to support the development of the soft skills of senior people, the more we realised we were on to something big," he said.