Overview
From a very serious corporate career in marketing to creating a business based on fun RedBalloon, this is my journey. In this blog I share what it takes to be an entrepreneur and what I have learned - warts and all. I am also the author of I want what she is having which chronicles the first five years of building of a fast growing business.
Very proud to be awarded National Telstra Business Womens Award for 2008 in the Nokia Innovation Catogory
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Extreme Entrepreneur.
I love the fact that big organizations ask me to speak to their people about innovation and leadership. This is where I came from. I love sharing the journey, and creating the future. Daring to imagine what could be possible if only we let ourselves dream.
I drive my team spare, I want to do before [...]
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You never know where the conversation ends up…
I was delighted to receive this photo from a client...It is from one of their 28 launch events as they rolled out the RedBalloon Program at each of their branch locations. When I opened it...I wondered who the people were... where do they live? I wonder what they have always wanted to experience.
We never know [...]
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I know how he feels
Every day it is such a privilege to do what we do... But when I hear stories like this...it is so humbling. Thankyou - wonderful customers!!
'As a kid I lived in a town where there was an absolutely crazy old man (about 44 yrs old I later found) who would fly about the district in [...]
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When things don’t go exactly as planned.
I travelled from Sydney to Melbourne on the 6am flight last week. I checked myself in but had to line up to drop my bags off. A grumpy lady tagged my bag. I arrive in Melbourne - my bag does not....stuff happens. The woman in baggage claims was delightful. She let me know that [...]
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Finding great people & recruiters
Interesting that 35% of the participants on the BRW Fast 100 this year say that the biggest issue facing them in 2007 is 'Hiring quality staff'.
Of the 100 in the list there are 14 recruiters with a combined turnover of $352 million. The shortage of people must be positively impacting the recruitment industry.
We have [...]
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Intrapreneurs
I was presenting for a corporation many months ago and the brief was to be inspiring, innovative and motivational - but please don't make being an entrepreneur sound too exciting, we don't want them all to leave to start their own businesses.
Life as an entrepreneur is not a laugh a minute. There is heart ache, [...]
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Design your life
I heard CEO of Life by Design, Ian Hutchinson speak on creating the life you want to live. He explored success and it's definition.
The number one area where people feel that they don't have control or balance in their lives - is not a lack of time, but a lack of clarity. What are [...]
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Creative Fun
"Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business."
Leo Burnett
Advertising Executive, 1891-1971
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