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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.

The foremost ad space buyer in the country may not be a Sinatra fan, but he has definitely done it his way. Tom Skotnicki reports

At 69, Harold Mitchell has never looked fitter. He has lost 70kg over the past three years and sold the business he spent 35 years developing.

Mitchell remains chairman of Mitchell & Partners and the second largest shareholder in its international parent, Aegis Media.

Loose lips sink careers. Charlotte Harper ponders the etiquette of new media in the workplace.

You have just woken up after finishing your shift late the night before. Your smartphone's message alert chimes. You have a new SMS. Almost immediately, another alert tone signals the arrival of a direct message on Twitter.

Beep! A third sound indicates a friend has contacted you on Facebook.

Knowing what behaviours you are trying to motivate will help you lead your teams more effectively.

We all know that motivated teams achieve better outcomes. That's because team members put something extra into their work. Lose it, and results would not stand out in the same way.

Jim Sloman OAM, the man who headed up SOCOG, talks about leadership and the importance of making the hard decisions.

In Australia, from a logistics point of view, there is nothing in peacetime - except perhaps coordinating disaster relief - that quite matches the sheer size and complexity of running a modern Olympic Games.