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BHP Group, the world’s largest listed miner, is preparing for a potentially historic leadership shift. Insiders suggest that Geraldine Slattery, the company’s head of Australian operations, is the leading candidate to succeed Mike Henry as Chief Executive Officer by mid-2026. If confirmed, Slattery would become the first female CEO in...

The trucking industry faces unprecedented challenges in today's competitive marketplace, requiring sophisticated coordination and strategic planning to maintain profitability. Transportation companies must navigate complex logistics networks while meeting tight delivery schedules and managing operational costs effectively. Professional dispatch services have emerged as a fundamental infrastructure that determines whether trucking businesses...

If you want change, for real, you should own it. What change do we want, though? There are four big battles that the world needs to win: technological breakthroughs, sustainability, collaborative marketing (in the broader sense of the term: engagement, dialogue) and a mindset of change.   There is a...

Any boss can easily imagine themselves to be doing an awesome job when things are going smoothly. The true test comes when things don’t go according to plan. Suppose someone misses a deadline. What should a boss do? Certainly the employee needs to be held accountable. Missed deadlines have real...

Cloud costs now rank second only to payroll on most tech P&Ls and the volatility is increasing quarter by quarter. Your 2026 budget requires a fundamental reset. Last year's cloud assumptions will leave your margins exposed in this new economic reality. To start, AI workloads are fundamentally altering the financial...

Early Life and the Drive to Learn Lesley Beador’s story begins near Lake Tahoe, where the mountains shaped her sense of self. She grew up hiking, skiing, and exploring the outdoors. That connection to nature has stayed with her and continues to influence her work and lifestyle. She showed determination...

Tourism in 2025: A Strategic Economic Force Tourism is more than leisure—it is a global economic engine, influencing GDP, trade, infrastructure, and cultural diplomacy. International tourist arrivals surged across major economies, reflecting both pent-up demand post-pandemic and structural shifts in global mobility. For executives, investors, and policymakers, analyzing where the...

Building on our premise from Part 1, productivity and employee well-being are closely linked, and it was suggested that actions aimed at leveraging peers to achieve sustainable productivity and high performance can also help reduce stress and anxiety at work. Although I did not anticipate this outcome initially, there is...

When I was running operations at a mid-sized residential plumbing outfit just outside Sacramento, I started noticing a pattern we couldn’t ignore. The calls we were missing weren’t random. They were nearly always coming in after hours, and nearly always the ones that would’ve paid the best. One week in...

Jack Truong walked into James Hardie Industries (NYSE:JHX) as CEO in early 2019 and transformed a stagnant building materials company into a growth machine. From January 2019 to January 2022, the building materials manufacturer experienced one of the most dramatic value creation stories in recent memory—only to see much of...