Last week was bookended by opposites. I spent Monday with a visionary, energetic, but largely undisciplined business, and Friday with an eff…
Last week was bookended by opposites. I spent Monday with a visionary, energetic, but largely undisciplined business, and Friday with an eff…
To jump start innovation, I’ve given my employees the opportunity to do a fun project in work time, but no one has submitted an idea. What’s…
The business landscape has changed. As the recovery kicks in, many companies are ramping up sales and marketing and putting on staff so they…
The fallout from Toyota’s disastrous product recalls shows no signs of ending. This morning our time, Toyota president Akio Toyoda app…
If you’re thinking about franchising your business, be prepared to make yourself redundant. In fact, try to make yourself redundant anyway. …
Business sectors are never stable. They are subject to change from new technologies and innovations in processes and business models, new re…
I met a guy recently; let’s call him Jack, who started a small business about 18 months ago. He was talking about how his business was track…
1. Set aside time for exploring ideas, reading, self-development – or just daydreaming. Try putting this time in your calendar as a recurr…
The most fundamental driver of business opportunity is demand and supply. It is very hard to go wrong if you are always in a situation where…
Awhile ago, I wrote a piece entitled, Great Ideas and Great Teams. The key messages of that piece were directed at the extent to which the t…
Western Australia and the ACT now share the title of the best performing economy in Australia. Overall CommSec couldn’t split Western Austra…
Sometimes it takes a real specialist to find a way to crack a difficult problem. We tend to forget that we have a lot of these people in abu…
