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10 sensible tips for business success in 2010
The New Year is a great time to take stock and prepare your business to gear up for a new operating environment. Westpac’s Sian Lewis provides the following New Year’s resolutions to kick-start your business for the year ahead…
Is your company culture driving talent out the door?
December is a time when many people pause to contemplate how fulfilled they are in their current professional role and size up a potential move in the new year. A decisive and often overlooked factor in this consideration is company culture — a magic ingredient for employers and employees alike. Persephone Nicholas reports.
In 2009, were you a proactive, experimental future leader or a reactive, butt-covering also-ran?
If there is one good thing that came from this year’s commercial carnage, it’s the liberating affect the economic downturn had on our collective ability, as entrepreneurs, to speak openly.
15 new year business resolutions you should start NOW.
The new year is a perfect time to clean out your desk, head and bad habits. Rowena Murray offers 15 tips for streamlining your business, renewing focus and retuning for a bumper 2010.
Grab it all. Own it all. Keep it all.
I don’t profess to know how things work in your business, but one situation I’ve come across in almost every place I’ve worked is that the ICT team don’t actually own the equipment for which they are accountable.
Speak truth to power (if you can get a word in)
We’ve all had to deliver difficult news to a colleague or client. Just be thankful that the recipient wasn’t Darth Vader. Particularly the prankster Darth as seen in this mashup.
Creating big success in small business
Small businesses are big business in Australia, with the vast majority of all companies coming into this category. While they may not have the resources and manpower of larger organisations when optimising efficiency, their small size and all-hands-on-deck ability means that they have the competitive advantage when comes to their most important asset: human capital. Tony Wilson explains.
Six tips to boost employee engagement
With one in five Australian workers admittedly unhappy at work, those companies that can keep their employees engaged have all sorts of advantages. Here are some tips to help your staff get the most out of themselves.
How to capture good ideas every time
With so much information flying around these days, it’s easy for good ideas to slip through the net. Roger La Salle highlights the importance of trawling deep and wide.
Why “Work smarter and not harder” is crap advice for entrepreneurs
When it comes to building a company from scratch, there’s no substitute for hard work, writes Sahil Merchant.









