Modern Small Business
Welcome to our Leadership Blog
Life, Love & Business – it's a phrase we often use to explain the everyday interconnection between our business lives and our personal lives — all for the purpose of protecting and providing for those we love and nurturing our key relationships.
Our experience is most people want to be better people, to run better businesses and be better able to contribute to their communities and families in more meaningful ways. At its core of course, is the drive of leadership; who you are when nobody is looking, what you believe (and what you don't) who you value, what you support, and how you choose to show up in the world around you. Leadership is how we live (and work) with purpose and become that change we want to see in the world around us.
Our Modern Small Business Blog is for people who want to actively grow themselves, their businesses, and their community – so they can all live a bigger life.
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision”
― Peter F. Drucker
A new way to look at round pegs
Small business, at its simplest form is about being able to manage and solve problems for people, just in time.
So why do many business owners say they regularly struggle to diagnose business problems correctly?
What if the problem they’re solving is the wrong one?
And what’s the long term outcome when you’re constantly pouring your limited time, focus and resources, into the wrong cup?
Learning how to think better in a team decision environment depends upon this skill
For a small business owner whose competitive advantage is their ability to out-think the competition, this is a problem we need to understand better.
And it starts with learning how to think better in a team decision environment. Never just trust your gut.
Beware the rise of the 'Chugger' (aka the dreaded 'Charity Mugger')
It’s official: Australians are the world’s most generous people.
A study by Pro Bono Australia showed we’re the most generous people in the world followed by Ireland, then Canada and then New Zealand. Overall, 76% of Australians had given money to a good cause in the past month, 67% had helped a stranger, and more than a third had volunteered their time to a cause.
Our approach to generosity is even enshrined in one of our favourite idioms, ‘Everyone deserves a fair go’.
Anything else would be, well, un-Australian.
Launching a new idea, new business, new brand — you're trading money for ownership
Watching the launch of a NASA space rocket burn through 80% of its fuel on take-off, just to get off the launch pad, always reminds me of just how much effort is required to launch a business successfully.
The shared determination and the alignment of all involved will be reflected in the success of the launch—or the disaster that misalignment can bring later.
How business owners and investors are using the same solution to reduce their own risks
Experiencing prostate cancer has a significant impact upon a man's personal, work, and family life. The sobering fact is 1 man dies every 3 hours from prostate cancer in Australia.
Ask yourself and then your Accountant this one question every year
Understanding the must-haves and the nice-to-haves
As a child, I remember hearing people say ‘you have to spend money to make money’.
It was one of those comments you would always feel the need to nod in agreement with, even though what it actually meant was a complete mystery to me.
I've gotten a little older now but the reason behind that statement still escapes many small business owners today.
- What happens when the dominos begin to fall in a business?
- How much money does your business owe you?
- The 7 Personality traits responsible for 85% of your success
- What a 9 year old boy taught me about courage
- How to protect your business from the natural habits you don’t know you have
- 10 Strategies to improve your mental toughness
- The irritation of doing good in business
Get Prepared for Business
Protect your Small Business (and the Family who supports it) from the statical realities of Life, Love and Business we all face.
