'I got fired': Westpac ex-CEO wants to help you be 'better' after $1.3b blunder

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'I got fired': Westpac ex-CEO wants to help you be 'better' after $1.3b blunder
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Former Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer was fired after a money-laundering scandal led to a $1.3 billion fine. He's past it, and wants to help you better engage the people you work with, for and above.

The book summarises his decades of experience in financial services and lays out how to boost staff engagement in the age of COVID, which has forced rapid change in workforces.

"[But] it has a permanent impact on company's ability to build teams, for people to build relationships with each other.Large employers like Westpac sent employees home, shattering the central business districts that have been the engine room of economic growth in recent decades.WatchWestpac profits up 189% as the bank delivers a dividend to shareholders

Westpac was then our second-biggest bank with a similar problem. In a large, complex organisation people thought keeping on the right side of the law was someone else's responsibility. In a meeting with 300 senior staff, leaked to The Australian, Hartzer tried to focus his leaders, telling them "we don't need to overcook" the allegations, and that it wasn't a scandal like Enron or Lehman Brothers.

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