Dear Aunty B, I have a problem with the business owner. He keeps overriding my decision-making and it is causing big problems with the bus…
Dear Aunty B, I have a problem with the business owner. He keeps overriding my decision-making and it is causing big problems with the bus…
Dear Aunty B, I have just found out that my senior staff have covered up the mistake of a very junior staff member instead of telling…
A friend of mine is an ideas machine. He’s really quite incredible. Not only does he have lots of ideas, but he gets going on them too. As y…
If you asked your staff, “What do you need right now that would make you perform better at work?” what would they say? Founder …
“You should hire for attitude, because skills can be taught, attitude can’t.” This quote seems to be getting thrown around more …
Dear Aunty B, Last year, in anticipation of the end of the GFC, I introduced a new layer of management. Up until then everyone had been re…
We are all susceptible to what has happened at the News of the World, the top-selling British Sunday newspaper that was shut down on the bac…
The rapidly unravelling saga of News Corporation shows that legal woes can severely impact on even large businesses with elite teams of high…
I’ve just hired my first salesperson and, to be honest, he stinks. How can I raise this issue without devastating him? Ouch. I can …
Virgin Group chairman Sir Richard Branson has thrown his weight behind government-mandated quotas for female directors, saying this morning …
Aunty B is on leave. This article first appeared on July 23, 2010. Dear Aunty B, I have just found out that one of my salespeople has done …
People who work long hours are less likely to take time off, but working while under the weather is not worth the effort, an academic says. …
