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Wake up and smell the bin juice: Five invaluable business lessons from the dirtiest bird there is

Other business blogs want to keep the inspirational secrets of the white ibis to themselves. But there's no secrecy here.

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E-blast delusion: If you keep email marketing personal, customers may actually respond

There’s only so much email-worthy material you can generate, even if you’re a huge and thrilling brand. So here are the top 10 things to bear in mind.

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Why you should stand up for your staff (and buy a Porsche 918 Spyder)

In an urge to appease difficult clients, many bosses are willing to throw staff under a bus. But the old cliché ‘the customer is always right’ is wrong.

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Is your business old and dusty? Take this quiz to find out

Your signs are peeling. Your computers are slow and the keyboards oily. Your walls are smothered in corny office-humour printouts.

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Business travel tips: Eight types of fellow-traveller to avoid at all costs

People who do a lot of business travel sure like to complain about it: ‘Oh my god, I am so happy to be back in my own bed!’

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Overworked and underpaid: Lessons from the George Calombaris saga

With all the George Calombaris news, you have to ask: are we all guilty of underpaying? Not just in business, but as customers?

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Tiptoeing through the minefield: Can you pull off humour at work?

It’s time we had a chat about humour and jokes in the business world. It’s a minefield of potential opportunities for people to see you at your worst.

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The art of business drinking: How to make deals, networks and friends

Business drinking offers as much scope for both pleasure and damage as driving a car. So in lieu of licences, consider these handy guidelines.

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How crappy recruitment ads trigger an eight-step spiral into disillusionment

Few things are as effective as recruitment ads in setting everyone involved up for disappointment.

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Why most business self-help books can just f*ck off

I love book shops, a habit left over from my quest to be the single uncoolest teenager on the Gold Coast. What I found last time I went to o…

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Owning your screw-ups: One thing all businesses can learn from Bryce Courtenay

One of the handiest things I ever learned came from a chance meeting with author Bryce Courtenay, when I was a clueless wannabe.

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Forget marketing, the secret to business success is being well-liked

Customers don't think about skills when making referrals, they only care about how much they like you, so focus on being likeable instead.

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