By Lee Wade When Professor Hannah Fry and her team built an AI agent and let it choose its own name, it chose Cass, short for Cassandra, “the one who always knew the truth, even when nobody listened.” “That’s either very funny or very worrying,” Fry noted. I have been watching the rise of autonomous AI agents for some […]
By Aaron Anaya For four years, the mortgage industry has had a consistent answer to why profitability keeps slipping: interest rates. Rates are why margins compressed. Rates are why consolidation happened. Rates are why solid operators found themselves running hard just to stay even. I understand the argument. I lived through it. Over nearly a decade in this
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Insights from CPA Australia’s Leadership & Culture Session By Paul Dove In the days after CPA Australia’s Leadership & Culture session in Brisbane, I kept finding myself in conversations that had started in the room but were clearly not finished. The question that kept coming up was not how to improve performance. It was something more specific,
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By Macon Albertson Ask any business leader in financial services, healthcare, legal, or customer experience what their biggest operational challenge is right now, and a surprising number will point to the same thing: they cannot find enough qualified bilingual Spanish-English professionals in the US. That is not just a perception. According to a survey by the American Council on
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By Roberto Gonzalez The world of travel and leisure is embracing automation with remarkable energy, and there’s genuine excitement in the air. In 2025, the global generative AI market in travel reached an impressive $1 billion, showcasing how deeply AI has woven itself into our industry’s fabric. Imagine AI-powered booking tools working alongside dynamic pricing engines and virtual staff,
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By Sally Simmons There is a pattern emerging across healthcare and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) organisations in Australia. Demand is rising. Experienced people are increasingly hard to find. And in response, many teams do what feels like the obvious move: they hire more people. It makes sense as a first response. But something else is becoming clear across the sector. Headcount alone
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By Jose De Soto Tax season is over. The dust has settled, the extensions have been filed, and if you’re being honest with yourself right now, you already know the answer to the question no one wants to ask out loud: Was that sustainable? For a lot of firm owners and managing partners I’ve been talking to lately, the answer is no. And
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By Juan Torres In my work with US law firms and legal‑intensive organizations, I’ve noticed that conversations about remote legal talent often move faster than the reality on the ground. Decisions are framed around roles, locations, or staffing models, while the day‑to‑day pressures legal teams face tend to be more interconnected. What I hear most often from
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By Paul Dove When you ask finance leaders across Australia about their biggest challenge right now, most will give you the same answer without much hesitation: finding accountants. I had that conversation dozens of times leading into and during the Accounting and Business Expo (ABE) 2026 in Sydney. The talent shortage came up almost every time, and the data
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By Ivan Popic If you ask a managing partner at a US law firm about their most pressing operational challenge right now, the answer comes up again and again: keeping good associates. Not finding them. Keeping them. I’ve spent years working alongside law firms and lawyers as they build and reshape their support structures, and the pattern is
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By Archie Balondo If you have typed something like “what is IFRS 18” or “how will IFRS 18 change my income statement” into an AI tool recently, you are part of a growing conversation happening across finance teams worldwide. The questions are valid, and the stakes are real. For decades, the structure of the income statement
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By Monika Simpson At The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) QLD Award Winners Showcase in Brisbane, the conversations centered on how women have progressed in a predominantly male‑dominated construction industry. Many spoke about the barriers they met early on, how they built their capability over time, and how they now support other women entering the industry. The event showed a clear pattern. Leadership grows when people
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By Geno Genov When Botkeeper announced its shutdown after 11 years of operations, the news sent ripples through the accounting industry. Firms that had invested in the platform for automated bookkeeping suddenly faced workflow disruption. Partners scrambled to secure client data. And everyone started asking: what happened, and what does this mean for how we think about building
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By Monika Simpson The construction industry workforce shortage is fundamentally reshaping how work gets distributed. I’m hearing the same pattern in my conversations across APAC. Senior engineers are absorbed by document control, version management, and coordination admin. Infrastructure Australia’s 2025 Market Capacity Report confirms the skills shortage will persist well past 2027. The challenge extends beyond headcount to
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By Anthony Lopez If you’re scaling a franchise right now, you’ve probably felt this tension. On one hand, momentum is building. New units are opening, demand is up, and your brand is gaining traction. On the other, your head office team is stretched thin, field support is reactive, and franchisees are quietly drowning in operational drag. You’re not failing. You’ve just hit a crossroads that
