Malcolm Turnbull’s hostile takeover of Australia’s top job this week shines the spotlight squarely on the issue of leadership changes. No doubt, Mr Turnbull’s path ahead will be met with numerous challenges and overcoming them will test his leadership and management abilities like never before. Mr Turnbull’s party members will be experiencing many of the […]
“We need to have in this country — and we will have now — an economic vision, a leadership that explains the great challenges and opportunities that we face. “Disruption we see driven by technology … is our friend, if we are agile and smart enough to take advantage of it. “There has never been […]
A presentation is a public performance of your very own show. The show is remembered by the highlights, the laughs, the drama, and the pathos. However, as a business person you will be wise to avoid the facets of a Hollywood production and focus on your business goal. Below are some tips on how to […]
Meetings often become a work based social function on company time and at company cost. The thought of socialising with fellow staff and being paid at the same time is sure to keep meetings a popular distraction to lonely work routines. Many companies have a tendency to gravitate toward their objectives by the sheer momentum […]
When we think about the bottom line in business the immediate jump is fiscal performance – how much value do we have in terms of cold hard cash? What sort of reserves do we currently hold; what sort of profit margin do we have in place? Are we in the red, or the black? In […]
Today’s leaders manoeuvre in an entirely different landscape to their counterparts of years gone by. Accepting that jobs are no longer ‘for life,’ scores of entrepreneurs join the game to take control of their own destinies while advances in technology become threats when not embraced. With the speed of change growing exponentially, now, more than […]
You may be familiar with the expression, ‘Two brains are better than one’? Well, imagine if you had three. The good news is you do and business leaders are now realising the significant advantages that can be gained by understanding how the three brains work and how to tap into their collective power. Some advantages […]
The phenomenal speed of change that got us to the 21st century’s technological frenzy is not going to slow down any time soon — and it is creating an uncertain future on a global business level that is naturally demanding change. We are having to evolve how we operate so that what we do aligns […]
When it comes to running a business, many people don’t like the networking aspect. It takes a lot of effort and can be difficult or uncomfortable. It’s easy to think that a good product or business idea is all you need to get started. I’m a big proponent of networking as it’s had a huge […]
Fortunately for large scale corporates, although key person risk can be nominally substantial, companies are well capitalised to weather the loss. The same cannot always be said for SMEs.
