Time to read this article: 2.5 mins)Two of Australia’s multi-million dollar Managed Investment Schemes (MISs) are in liquidation, partly because of a mistake by the Tax Office who wrongly* [...]
(Time to read this article: 5 mins) OK, so I used a lurid headline to get your attention and now that I have it here’s the real headline: Australian Banks Are Failing Small Business – and [...]
(Time to read this article: Less than 1 min) Check your Aged Debtors Report weekly (as opposed to “weakly”) in the current climate. Ring anyone who is overdue on the day they become overdue. Set [...]
Are You A Company Director? Many of even the smallest businesses these days organise themselves as an incorporated entity – usually a proprietary limited company – and appoint [...]
Last week a friend of mine went to a seminar called “Stress and Disease” by Dr. Nickolas Hall, an expert in psychobiology. He gave an example of a coping skill for job stress that I [...]
In a study of 375 of the Fortune 500 companies, Bain & Company identified three stages to a downturn and two contrary behaviours to each stage. The stages are: Storm clouds – the first [...]
In a recent blog we nominated “Increase Your Productivity” as one of only four ways to increase profits and then focused down onto increasing “human productivity” by [...]
We often enjoy the privilege of working with fast-growing businesses and their emerging leadership teams as most have realised that the rate of growth of their leaders controls the rate of growth [...]
Why So Glum? The so-called “news media” devotes 90% of its time and space to the bottom 2% of the population – the 2% who lie to, cheat, steal from, assault and kill other [...]
Most people in business have nutted out a way of selling or they would not have survived to this point. There may not be a lot of science in the way they sell but, hey, when they can find an [...]
