How female founders fare on Shark Tank Australia Another year has passed and it is International Women’s Day #IWD again and the media will commentate on the gender pay gap, the lack of women in leadership, and the continued unconscious bias against women in many areas...
Innovation lessons for business owners People talk about innovation lessons all the time and yet what does it really take to be an innovator? This is not just about what you want to do, nor about why you want to. It is important to understand if you as a person, are a...
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...
Small Business Projects for 2017 I titled this blog ‘‘I made it’ – another year of small business success…’ – but perhaps it should have been ”phew I survived’ – without any major incidents in 2016′. As 2016 drew to a close I...
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...
Sometimes a little bit of success for a start-up business can be misleading – as a founder you do it all, from customer experience to bookkeeping – there is no one else – and you know you can count on yourself to get things done. But it is not...
With the media full of US politics and election results – one thing I am so aware of is that as business leaders we will keep doing what we can do to make the world a productive place for all. We are doing our bit to keep commerce thriving, to employ people, buy...
As we are on the cusp of shooting Shark Tank Series 3, I thought it was time to reflect on an important topic: ‘sometimes an investment deal, in reality, is not the best thing for a business’. It has been reported that there is marked gender differences in...
