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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: December 2008
‘Sickies’ will kill Australian businesses in the downturn.
In troubled times business must do more with less. There may be less people in your business, less customers, less capital, less cash…. But one thing you do want less of is people 'Chucking a Sicky'
As a result there a some simple options available to doing more with less:
Whinge to anyone who might still be [...]
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Work/Life balance is still very much on our minds.
In Melbourne this week for the National Telstra Business Womens Awards – I had to present to two separate judging panels. The award winner selection process is absolutely rigorous.. which is why the awards are so prestigious.
Both sets of judges asked me the same question right at the end of the presentation. “What about work/life [...]
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RedBalloon named in National Innovation Award….
That head line sounds like a press release if you ask me.... but I can't help myself I on behalf of the RedBalloon team was so truly honoured on Tuesday night to be the named the National winner of the Telstra Business Womens Awards - Innovation - 2008
It was a in fact a festival to [...]
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Five Leadership Temptations
When you are running a tiny business – you do everything. Often you rush from urgency to urgency – with little regard for the important. Working 'in' the business rather than 'on' it. To grow a business is to get beyond the day to day crisis's – to set a clear vision and know that [...]
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