Leadership: The 10 Commandments by Ashley Goldsworthy AO OBE

FOREWORD BY THE HON JOHN HOWARD OM AC

Paperback, 172 pages, $29.95

ISBN: 9781923224742

Published July 2025

"It is stating the obvious to write that Ashley Goldsworthy has achieved a lot in his 90 years. I got to know him through our common membership of the Liberal Party. He was the first Queenslander to become Federal President of our Party. He filled that role in difficult and challenging circumstances, taking on the job when the Party was in Opposition and looking likely to remain so for some years. As became his character, he filled the role with diligence and great loyalty. He focussed on the minutia of events and issues as well as the broader picture."

- Hon John Howard OM AC, former Prime Minister of Australia

"Anyone involved in leadership, or aspiring to be, would benefit from a couple of hours immersion in this book. In using some of his (semi) retirement to impart these important life lessons, Goldsworthy has performed yet another fine act of public service."

- Hon Tony Abbott AC, former Prime Minister of Australia

"If you could turn back the clock, I’m sure Moses would have benefited from Ashely’s sage advice unpacking the 10 commandments as written in the book of Exodus."

- Hon Larry Anthony AO, Former Federal government minister and Federal President of the National Party

Ashley Goldsworthy is in a unique position to write a book on Leadership based on personal experience. In a career spanning over 60 years he has been CEO of Australia’s largest housing and construction company; a retail bank; the Australian Computer Society; Australia’s Business/Higher Education Round Table; deputy to the CEO of a large insurance company; chairman of an international construction company; Director of Economic Statistics for the Australian Government; Dean of the Business School at Australia’s first private university; one of Australia’s first Professors of Leadership; Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia; World President of the International Federation for Information Processing; director of one of Australia’s largest casinos; founding chairman of a university Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies; chairman/director of performing arts companies in ballet, theatre and circus; chairman of several private and public companies ranging across human resources, accounting, financial services, healthcare, computer systems, and vocational education and training; member of the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Science and Technology Council, and the Australian Government Industry Research & Development Board; and Consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission.

Has published over 140 papers, mainly on Information Technology, and was honoured by the Queen as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1982; as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1991; and with the Centenary Medal in 2003. Was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 1994, and the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 1996. In 2005 he was admitted to the Pearcey Hall of Fame for distinguished lifetime achievement and contribution to the development and growth of the Information Technology Professions, Research and Industry.

He is a papal knight in the Order of St. Sylvester; a Knight of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta; and a Knight of the Southern Cross.

He has degrees in law, accounting, business, public administration, science, philosophy, theology, leadership, and canon law from five Australian and five international (UK, USA, Canada) universities.