FAMILY FRIENDLY CEOS – NOT

Good to see the Australian Financial Review on Wednesday interviewing the heads of all the banks about their work/life balance. (“Bankers check their balance” by Stewart Oldfield AFR 10 August, 2005) The answers were not very encouraging since none of the bank CEOs managed to make it home for dinner with their families. But at least they acknowledged that they should. Unlike new Telstra boss Sol Trujillo who is reported in the AFR on 11 August, 2005 as being prone to call meetings at 7pm that often go on until after midnight, expects his executives to come in for meetings on Saturday mornings and thinks nothing of calling people at 4 in the morning if he needs something. Way to go, Sol.