Best Business Advice My blog theme for the month, as the title suggests, is ‘Best Business Advice’. Throughout my career I’ve had many people offer ‘nuggets of gold’ that have benefited me greatly, unbeknownst to them. That’s the...
Employer of Choice CHOICE has been advising consumers since last century about the efficacy of the broadest range of products. As a child, my father would receive his monthly subscription to the magazine – each month opening it with glee and reading (often out loud)...
Protection from Disruption The world of work is melding with the rest of life – people are online and connected all the time – how we work has changed forever. For small business owners’ life, has never been more challenging…customers seem more elusive and more...
Employee Feedback can be confronting What I didn’t know…. One of the greatest challenges faced by us as individuals, team players, employees or leaders is that it is very difficult for us to get perspective. That is ‘we don’t know what we don’t know’ and we...
Last week was all about resilience, focus and a few laughs – there were plenty of lessons. Monday was all about strategy and planning for Redii.com Tuesday was to be a continuation of the ‘design thinking project’ and reviewing numbers… and...
What fun we had at the #Bx16 Business for Life event in Sydney this week. I felt so at home with my fellow curious small business owners – we are all eager to learn from others; especially from other’s mistakes. I am happy to tell my story and to share what I...
We have never lived in a more ‘abundant’ time – despite the fact that there are more than 7 billion people on the planet – we have ‘more’ now than ever before in history. We are at the beginning of incredible social changes such as ‘dematerialization’ and...
When you hear the term ‘performance review,’ what is your immediate reaction: relish or dread? Is it something that needs to be endured or an exciting opportunity to learn, grow and develop? What if there was a way that you could completely flip the performance...