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: September 2008
Charmed I’m sure…
I attended the Smart Company awards last week. I always find it interesting with a room full of people who know almost no one how people interact. Some people stay as hidden as possible in the back of the room, but this was a room of entrepreneurs.... and we are by nature 'sales people'. Always [...]
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Fun in work
They call it work because it is just that 'work'. However work is different now. There is such a melding between the work week and leisure time, that employers must re examine how an employee 'experiences' work.
If the blackberry is never off, if people are connected 24/7 to email or online – then work has [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned 2 Comments
Zappo’s story on employee engagement and Twitter
A blog I wrote earlier this week was all about what you do in private, may end up in the public domain so you may as well encourage conversation as try to control them.
Well I came across this very interesting – if not challenging example of an organization 'showing their stuff' in public.
Zappos.com is the [...]
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Postive outlook delivers success.
I read somewhere recently that positive people are far more likely to be successful. I wish I could remember the details because it was fascinating. A study was done by looking at the authenticity of the smile in school photo's - apparently there is a muscle in every persons face that just cannot lie. If [...]
Posted in Quotes to inspire 3 Comments
Three elements of why business must be transparent.
The workplace is different now, we are surrounded by media – people no longer trust advertising as a reliable source of information.
This is a new age of transparency because:
1. 'Generation Y' have grown up in a media world where people who choose a public life have no privacy. Who Magazine, New Weekly, even Dolly [...]
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10 things bosses hate