Something that has been clearly lacking in the global response to the coronavirus pandemic is good leadership and clear communications at...

Co-founder of the Australian Transformation and Turnaround Association and leading public affairs advisor Guy McKanna and I argue in a...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s stay calm and keep spending message in the face of the growing coronavirus crisis is...

The first lesson from the coronavirus that governments, corporations and organisations need to learn is that “black swan” events happen....

A common phrase throughout much of the West’s post-World War II boom years was that if America sneezes the world catches cold. It was a...

Whether you’re calling it coronavirus or COVID-19, as the World Health Organisation has renamed it, it is important to keep a finger on...

I lived in China with my young family when the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (or SARS) hit in late 2002 and early 2003. There I was...

Hanoi, 24 January 2020 - Vietnam is an economy on the move. I’ve been in Vietnam for just three days, but, from what I have seen, the...

Less than 48 hours after the US-China trade deal was reached, many Australian exporters are starting to worry that it will have a...

In the wake of the re-election of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen for a second term on Saturday, many in the Australian business community...

In September 2018 I was privileged to deliver the Occasional Address to that year’s Business School graduands of Macquarie University. I...

At some point during a major issue or crisis situation the CEO or a senior executive of an organisation must front the media. You cannot...

In 2017, while Executive Vice President and Director of Special Projects at Powell Tate Australia (the public affairs arm of...

Prior to leaving policy institute China Matters last year, I gave a speech to an AsiaLink Business - CPA Australia forum in which I...