There has been a dramatic increase in the number of female led businesses in Australia, as a result of advances in technology, home based, mobile friendly, and family friendly work environments. This new era in business has seen women today owning more than a third of...

Making up close to 60% of our nations Gross Domestic Product currently, SMEs are leading the way for innovation, change, adaptability, and growth. According to Kate Carnell, AO Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman "Tens of thousands of small...

Article by Deep Patel as published on Forbes. Too often, people step into leadership roles before they’re ready. Sometimes it’s by necessity: An organization loses a key member and suddenly needs someone to fill the role—so they promote a junior employee to a...

Have you implemented a formal employee wellness program in your business? If not, there are compelling reasons to consider moving forward with a program that emphasises the value of a healthier lifestyle and that offers resources for employees to pursue this admirable...

Article by: Andrew Arnold as published on Entrepreneur Middle East There’s an emotional toll to entrepreneurship that many people don’t talk about. Many entrepreneurs struggle to create a proper work/life balance. They feel pressured constantly, and even suffer from...

Business owners may understand intellectually there are only 24 hours in a day, but the frenetic pace at which they lead their lives suggests they hope, somehow, to find more. This is often the case with leaders who don’t manage the time they have, either because they...

“How do I make my business more efficient?” is a question business owners or CEOs might ask themselves every day. While what constitutes “efficiency” might differ from one industry to the next, generally speaking, an efficient business is one that manufactures (and/or...

Sooner or later every business loses a valued customer. Needs change, problems occur, personalities differ. But nowhere is it written that a lost customer must stay lost. In fact, the mark of a successful business is its ability to determine why customers stray and to...

All businesses, and especially small/medium business owners, struggle with priorities. The Tyranny of the Urgent ensures that the important and urgent get done. Otherwise, the business would not exist. The key to the more successful businesses is that they also figure...

Do you remember when you first heard of it? “There’s this company in America. Only sells books. And only sells them online.” “Really? What’s it called?” “Amazon, I think.” “Right. Well good luck with that. I read somewhere that people aren’t reading books any more....

The Australian workforce is changing the nature of “work” as we once knew it. The days when employees absolutely had to work at a desk, in an office, are long gone. While many businesses still insist on keeping their workforce on-site, more than 30 percent of...

  Advances in technology have significantly leveled the playing field for small and mid-sized businesses. They now have access to much of the same technological resources previously available only to larger companies, and these resources enable them to become...

Is the thought of the strategic planning process too daunting for you to consider? Many small business owners and CEOs are inclined to put this off, thinking that such planning requires extended time away from the workplace, a commitment of additional resources and...

Urgent? Or important? Take a moment to look back on what you did today in your role as business owner or CEO. How much time was spent reacting to an urgent issue or crisis someone brought to you, which (according to them) demanded an immediate response? Alternatively,...

For most companies, there’s no way around having meetings as a way to conduct day-to-day business. At the same time, it’s hard to find any CEO or business owner who doesn’t experience frustration at having to participate in so many meetings, or who feels stymied by...

How many times in a day do people approach you or your gatekeeper with a request, suggestion or some other time-consuming appeal? Like many other business leaders, your first inclination may be to say, “OK,” or “Yes, I’ll look into that.” You want to help others or...

I noticed three things this week, which have ‘come together’ to form a view about how we might need to change the way we think about our businesses. The first was a post on my local Facebook page which asked other Mums ‘how to report a child’s absence at School’ as...