During my four years with The CEO Magazine, I was lucky enough to spend the best part of a month, each year, judging hundreds of applications for our annual Executive of the Year Awards.A humbling and heartening experience, particularly during these very challenging times, I was truly inspired by some remarkable applications from Australia’s best executives. I say ‘some’ because, full disclosure, they weren’t all exceptional.
In fact, there were those that were toe-curlingly terrible; from one-line explanations (Really? You couldn’t come up with a few more adjectives?) to answers that included LOTS of words but didn’t say anything. No, it would appear Ronan Keating wasn’t right when he said, “You say it best when you say nothing at all.”
Some were littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, and others clearly hadn’t bothered to read the criteria. Oh, and a couple of execs who thought, because they acted like the CEO, they should be eligible for the CEO category, even if those three letters weren’t in their title. You know, it doesn’t really work that way.
By the same token, there were some extraordinary entries. Full of figures and statistics, passion and conviction, experience and knowledge, they made judging interesting, inspiring, and almost easy.
Fact-checked and spellchecked, and with just the right amount of detail and data, make applications stand head and shoulders above the rest
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The Future Is Digital
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The Ultimate Investments
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Once in a LIFETIME
CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF INTEGRITI PROJECTS ANDREW STENOS IS BUILDING MORE THAN BESPOKE HOMES. HE’S ALSO BUILDING DREAMS FOR CLIENTS WHO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT.
PUTTING FAMILY FIRST
COUNTRY LIVING HOMES MANAGING DIRECTOR MARK RAVENSCROFT HAS OVERSEEN IMPRESSIVE GROWTH, BUT NEVER LOST SIGHT OF WHAT MAKES THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS SUCH A SUCCESS.
“A SAFER COMMUNITY IS MY MAIN PRIORITY”
ULTIMATE SECURITY CEO NASSIM SAID HAS BUILT A HIGH-TECH SECURITY ORGANISATION FROM THE GROUND UP, ALWAYS WITH COMMUNITY SAFETY IN MIND AND AN INSISTENCE ON FAMILY VALUES.
We Did It Our Way.
WHEN STEVEN SIMEONI FOUNDED TAS CITY BUILDING, HE KNEW HE WANTED TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY.
FROM PRECISION TO PREZZEE
A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY BARON AT 24, PRECISION GROUP BILLIONAIRE SHAUN BONÉTT HAS BUILT HIS CAREER ON UNDERSTANDING THE RETAIL MARKET. NOW HE’S INTRODUCING PREZZEE, THE DIGITAL GIFT CARD PLATFORM THAT’S CHANGING THE WAY WE GIVE.
HIGHWAY STAR
IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIA, WHERE TRUCKS ROUTINELY NAVIGATE VAST STRETCHES OF HIGHWAY, THE ROAD BETWEEN AGRIBUSINESS AND COMMUNITY IS SHORT. DENILIQUIN FREIGHTERS IS AN OLD HAND AT THAT ROUTE, WHICH CEO VICKI MEYER SAYS IS ITS MOST IMPORTANT ONE.
BENEATH THE SHEETS
A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP GOES A LONG WAY TOWARDS MENTAL WELLNESS, AND AH BEARD CEO TONY PEARSON BELIEVES THE OFT OVERLOOKED MATTRESS IS THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT.
