Russell Yardley

Everybody is talking about disruption. We’re in an agile economy. It’s easy to imagine we’re at constant risk of being made redundant by something newer and sexier. I’m here to say: stop. You can’t set out to be a disruptor. You can only lo...

By Russell Yardley

25 Sep, 2017

Jack Welch said, “If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside, the end is in sight.”I’ve thought about this often over the past thirty years. As Managing Director of three technology companies, I was swamped. Every day I...

By Russell Yardley

25 Sep, 2017

When you really think about it, a company can’t sustainably grow faster than the rate at which the board grows its own capability. If you don’t grow the capacity of the board and its directors, every company will reach a stage where its gro...

By Russell Yardley

25 Sep, 2017

Most Australian company directors are very aware of the Centro case. The case has very clear implications for how directors deal with and review the company accounts. But I think the broader implications of this case are too frequently miss...

By Russell Yardley

25 Sep, 2017

Cybersecurity is a potential minefield of risk. Every company must be thinking about it, and every board needs to be asking the hard questions. By hard questions, I don’t just mean “can people hack our systems?” it’s important to go back ev...

By Russell Yardley

25 Sep, 2017