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
Business insights while standing in line, again
Have you ever wondered why you keep going back?
(Tales of shame from the Dry Cleaners)
Have you ever been so busy in life that you've forgotten whether you're still enjoying it?
Have you ever found yourself after a less than sparkling customer experience asking yourself, 'why do I keep putting up with this?'
I can relate.
Embrace your inner commodity - you know you have to
Death, BAS returns and Commoditisation
If there’s a single word that strikes fear in the heart of every forward-looking business owner more than, ATO Audit or HR Claim - it’s Commoditisation.
It’s like death, but not as you understand it.
Navigating the new casual business etiquette and the 7 things to look for in a new relationship
When browsing online, I came across an advertisement that seems to echo the desire of many business owners.
They want more from life.
Sometimes reading what other people want, can make for compelling reading.
We all want something.
5 Ways to avoid the happy distraction of a very deep rabbit hole
In business, it doesn’t take long until you get to thinking about ‘new ways to do stuff. New ideas for products, services, and new opportunities always come to mind. And the shiniest ones seem most alluring.
The challenge is sorting these new ideas into the ones you keep, and the ones you don’t.
And then there is the tricky question of implementation.
Selling half-truths to whole questions
In our connected world of 30 second sound bites and increasingly shortening attention spans, it's difficult to think that some things can't be explained in a tweet and require more discussion. But sadly that doesn't stop some people from trying to sell half an answer to a whole question and expecting nobody to notice.
Perhaps the only thing that makes a half-truth more dangerous is the fact it makes the half-lie more convincing.
Do you have to be brave or be safe?
The Snakes and Ladders board game has been a traditional favourite for thousands of years. Like all good board games played with dice and others, it’s a game of chance.
- Budgeting for Big Picture People
- What do you mean I have to come back to the office to work?
- The psychology of good decisions and sticky notes
- Taking the 'C word' out of social responsibility
- Purpose isn’t everything, but it beats everything else
- Patronus spells and the growing awareness nobody is coming to rescue you
- 10 Habits to make personal growth automatic
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.
