Opinion Don't miss out on the headlines from Opinion. Followed categories will be added to My News. Has something changed in the world of leadership in the past few years? It used to be that if you stuffed up, you exited pretty darn smartly - taking the odor of your mistakes with you and leaving your previous employer to mop up and pretend you were never there.
The poster boy for this previous mismanagement management was of course then New South Wales premier Barry O’Farrell, who resigned in 2014 over a bottle of wine - a $3000 bottle of 1959 Grange that he received as a gift but forgot he had received, until reminded by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. He sounded ashamed after he gave inaccurate evidence to the corruption hearing in what he called “a significant memory fail”. “I accept the consequences of my actions,” he said.
Daryl Maguire and Gladys Berejiklian who are now no longer romantically linked. Picture: NewsWire. Then, in 2021, NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian left office when it emerged that she once had a really dodgy boyfriend.
She had to go, or at least it seemed like she had to go at the time. Today, there is a little less of that around. It appears that the accepted ground rules have shifted.
Qantas Chair Richard Goyder left the airline after the carrier was shown to be selling tickets on cancelled flights. Picture: NewsWire / Luis Ascui Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce also quit the airline amid mounting controversies. Picture: NCA Newswi.
