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A top-performing team starts with writing a thorough and accurate job description. Consider these five tips.

Consider these secrets from a fourth-generation company for managing a family business.

Even the most productive Aussie workers waste 12 percent of their time at work each day, as more than 3.5 million workers fall behind the national workforce productivity standard and cost local businesses in excess of $40 billion per year.

Let a good one get away? That’s a bad mistake but not the worst. Here’s the one that trumps all the rest.

Founders are expected to perform under pressure, iterate on the fly, and fail fast. But is that ethos doing more harm than good?

Forget fetching coffee and making copies. The right internship programs can build you a great pipeline to the best young talent.

Welcome to Friday, small business owners. For those of you who’ve had a busy week, here’s our weekly recap of the most important SMB and entrepreneur headlines from the past seven days.

This mind trick is a powerful tool for entrepreneurs trying to find a solution to a perplexing problem.

After its IPO, the social network is being valued at more than $100 billion. Here’s how you can try to emulate that success.

How to make your office project a professional image for your business, and a look at products to help you do it.

Sick of waiting for the NSW Government to legislate for Small Business Commissioner Yasmin King’s role and give her any legal power to do anything, Shadow Small Business Minister Adam Searle has this week launched his own Bill into Parliament.

A newly formed anti-bullying organisation is urging business owners to ensure their workplace is inclusive of any lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer employees.

Despite warnings of subdued confidence, consumers are continuing to purchase digital devices from local retail outlets as technology products continue to decline in price, new research has found.

Many Aussie professionals believe they need to spend around an hour a day on advancing their career, but a global personal branding expert begs to differ, advising career management should take less than 10 minutes from one’s daily schedule.

Some companies are bought for huge sums, while other similar ones never get much notice. How to get on the road to the big acquisition.

High-pressure sales tactics can be more annoying than effective. There’s a better way to move a deal forward.

Google’s “chief happiness officer” shares some of the wisdom that has made the company’s employees more content and productive.

When it comes to business travel necessities, smartphones and tablets are slowly creeping up to water and food in terms of importance to travellers, according to research conducted by PC Housing. How does your dependence on mobile technology rate? Use this infographic to find out.

Despite a degree of economic stability in Australia compared with elsewhere in the world, a lack of confidence and cost containment issues are threatening to blind local SMEs to future opportunities.

Australian exporters are being invited to take part in the DHL Export Barometer, which is used annually by the Reserve Bank of Australia and other economic policy institutions to understand the experiences of local exporters.