Academic website The Conversation no longer carries Pollaers’ bio, in which he claims “repeated turnaround performances”.
, “Professor Pollaers said he had carried out 16 major company transformations during his career”. This would be impossible because Professor Pollaers only ever worked for three major companies.
Pollaers bears the title of “professor” and he teaches at the University of Melbourne, yet he doesn’t have a PhD and has not authored any peer-reviewed academic research. In our day, such a person was called a lecturer. Precisely measuring the magnitude of Pollaers’ exaggeration was assisted by his biography, carried since October 2014 bythat claimed “John’s career has been marked by repeated turnaround performances in which he has successfully led nine business transformations, Pacific Brands’ being the most recent”.
Amazingly, none of this grandiose embellishment seemed to bother Double Bay Jesus or his apostles at Grok Ventures. It bothered the 38 per cent of AGL shareholders who voted against Pollaers’ election to the board, but, incredibly, they were outnumbered.to list each of the 16 company transformations he has led, and he refused!
Pollaers has talked his way on to the board of a public company by blatantly misrepresenting his skills and experience, but much worse, he has done so while serving as the chancellor of an Australian university.
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