Business school

At that time, I was working in advertising.

And so it really wasn't Like now and then you'd have the occasional person going to B-School, but it really wasn't part of the culture.

Meaning like if you worked in banking or consulting, it was actually part of the culture in order to advance to a certain level that you would leave and you would go get your MBA.

And there was a lot of support structures around that, right? Your boss probably had an MBA.

I'll give you an example.

So my son is in a financial class, and he came home and said, Dad, what's the number one principle, the most powerful principle you've learned this year about finance? And what I discovered this year, and I've been to B-School and seminary, and I've never learned this in church, is that the word save in the Bible means one-fifth, just like the word tithe means one-tenth.

And so crisis happens all the time.

But the way we enter crisis is usually the way we exit crisis.

David Phelan, Monocle's tech correspondent, thank you very much for joining us.

And now, as you were hearing, of course, Apple has a new CEO, and we wanna hear from Herminia Ibarra, the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London's Business School.

She studies how people step up to big leadership roles and offered us some advice for John Ternus on how to take over as the new big boss.

[upbeat music] So I've got five top tips for John Ternus as he steps up into his new role as Apple CEO.

Don't try to become a more charismatic version of your predecessor or to fit anyone else's mold.

Figure out what's distinctive about you that the organization needs now, and make it visible.

Herminia Ibarra there, the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School.

Thanks also to David Phelan, our tech correspondent.

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So Dr Faith Ong from the University of Queensland's Business School has helped develop that logo.

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Today, he is the founder and CEO of the Digital CEO, the CEO of Omniscient, an AI company pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to decode the human brain and serves on the advisory panel of Sovereign Australia AI as a member.

He has previously been chairman at CBIT Australia, a senior advisor at McKinsey & Company and an executive in residence at AGSM at the University of New South Wales Business School.

As a keynote speaker and advisor, Stephen has spoken to or advised many prominent organisations and the Australian government, helping leaders navigate digital transformation and emerging technologies.

A frequent media commentator on AI, technology and the future of business, he has appeared on major stages, including TEDx and South by Southwest Austin, and is a member of the Australian Prime Minister's Knowledge Nation 100, recognising Australia's leading innovators and thinkers.

And he's a bit of an iconic figure in Australian business.

Yeah.

And he met with me and he sort of told me why I thought business school was good and why the education was better than going to Harvard or, Wharton or someplace because I was considering going back to the U.S. to do this now that I was interested in business school.

So he talked me into going to the AGSM.

my background is in healthcare.

So prior to business school, I worked as a pharmacist working in different aspects of healthcare in Nigeria, from clinical practice in the hospital, helping patients to access the medications that they needed, to working in global health, overseeing rollout of COVID-19 medications.

in Nigeria as part of a sub-Saharan African healthcare project, to working in health tech that sort of positioned me on the path to an MBA that gave me an opportunity to understand the intersection between business and healthcare.

And it was very nice to see pharmacists like myself leading business development, marketing, government relations, and the likes.

And it helped me to see that I could do a whole lot with my license as a pharmacist.

And my desire to obtain an MBA began, and here I am at Owen, trying to do the best I can with what Owen offers me.

From a leadership perspective, I would say I was largely an outcomes-focused leader prior to business school.

And with the leadership experiences that I've garnered here at Owen, the opportunity to learn from my phenomenal classmates, and of course, be a part of a leadership development program like the LDP, now I'm becoming somebody who is more self-aware and aware of people around me and being able to understand how to better navigate influence to achieve that bigger purpose and outcome that I may be committed to at any point in time.