I am Leon Gettler. I am a senior business journalist at The Age, a leading Australian broadsheet newspaper. I specialize in writing about management issues which covers a range of areas including strategy, globalization, leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, executive education, IT, marketing and human resources. I also have a strong interest in regulatory issues, including Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate governance and ethics.

I am also a jazz musician and critic.

My first book, An Unpromised Land (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1993) received a National Book Council Prize. My latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly: A Greek tragedy of corporate pathology (John Wiley, 2005) focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.

soxfirst.com focuses mostly on Sarbanes-Oxley. But that means I will also look at corporate governance, ethics and the broader issues involving the relationship between business and society.