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The world has changed, and it is just a little out of whack. We're living in a time when teenagers are excelling in Second Life but flunking in their first, Maslow's Needs Hierarchy has been flipped on its head and football players have become metrosexuals. Since 2000, the Chinese have embraced capitalism, Muammar Gaddafi is now a respected member of the international community and Big Brother is finally off air. Computer power doubles every 18 to 24 months, farmers speed-date on national television, we tell one minute bedtime stories to our children, and even instant gratification today seems too slow. (I want my cheeseburger, now!) And then, well, then there's Gen Y... Tech-savvy, ambitious, international in outlook and with a sense of entitlement that would have made 18th Century British aristocrats cringe. So how can employers tame the 'silver-spoon' generation?

It’s no coincidence that those old-time miners, enduring the elements and living with uncertainty in their quest for gold, have a lot in common...

Social networking tools, such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, are diabolical time-wasters. They suck millions of minutes from tens of thousands of people in...

Published in Australian Anthill Magazine, Dec 2008/Jan 2009 You probably cannot remember the last time you awoke to an inbox filled with messages titled, “I...

Thoughts of 3D Chess came to me the other day as I tried to explain to a friend the entrepreneurial process for designing and...

Entrepreneurship education comes of age Gaining the confidence to plot your business’s next step without knowing all the answers is the key to entrepreneurship education,...

What does it take to thrive in California, the epicentre of America’s ICT economy? Brad Howarth recently travelled to San Francisco in search of...

What does it take to thrive in California, the epicentre of America’s ICT economy? Brad Howarth recently travelled to San Francisco in search of...

PARK YOUR BUSINESS HERE Why are more fast-growth Australian businesses relocating to technology parks and incubators than ever before? The answer lies in...

It’s been five years of hard work, humour and ah-hah moments, peppered with the occasional embarrassing hiccup. So brush the cake crumbs off your...

SPONSORED EDITORIAL The digitisation of the entertainment industry is disrupting life for existing businesses but it is opening up a myriad of opportunities for...

You’ve written your business plan, spent hours agonising and estimating, but are you sure it’s a clear winner? There are two ways to...

In the distinct vernacular of fictional family-man Daryl Kerrigan, Australia is a nation of ‘ideas people’. We’re educated, we’re passionate and we love to...

When UCMS CEO Denise Pitt decided to list this national CRM provider in less than nine weeks, her advisers thought she was joking. One...

“Of all the trade marks on all the brands in all the world, she had to copy mine.” – not spoken by Humphrey Bogart...

“Of all the trade marks on all the brands in all the world, she had to copy mine.” – not spoken by Humphrey Bogart...

strong>It’s true that most business owners live and die by their own risk-and-reward equation. Craig Scutt explores why so many Australian entrepreneurs forget the...

The Dumb Report 2007 Making mistakes is all part of growing a business. It’s just a pity that not all mistakes are created equal. As...