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
Budgeting for Big Picture People
It's not the amount, it’s the percentages that count
There are some numbers in life you should always remember. Your PIN numbers, your spouse's birthday, (maybe your mother-in-law's birthday), the number of children you have, their birthdays, and quite possibly the annual date for the football grand final.
The new problem of liking working from home (WFH)
When it comes to building robots that look uncannily similar to humans in facial appearance, the end result usually makes even the most stoic of people uncomfortable, and simply creeps us out. Our sense of being uniquely human is core to our understanding of self, our personal autonomy and our sense of innate value.
Robots purposely made to look a little too human, seem to violate that sensibility.
Understanding the psychology of making good decisions
Ask many men ‘how they are feeling’ and they'll tell you ‘how they are thinking’ - because they don't understand the question.
The problem we face traditionally as men is, ‘How you think determines how you make decisions, so what determines how you think has a more direct and measurable impact upon your business then you may first, well, ‘Think’.
So how do we improve the quality and speed of the decisions we’re making every day, while decreasing decision overload? How do we know if we’re building the right service or product? – Such questions fundamentally come down to the quality of our decisions.
Surprise: Small Businesses are not just small corporations
Modern Small Businesses are not miniature versions of big business or large corporate organisations. And using the 'C word' in small business never gets you very far in the right direction.
Trying to apply the dysfunctional processes and slow responding mindsets of corporates to a Modern Small Business doesn’t work.
So how relevant is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Small Businesses?
Following your north-star in a very crowded world
Do you ever get the feeling that time is speeding up?
The major transitions in human history have been driven by the need to domesticate cattle and plants, the large-scale mechanisation of jobs; and now the immediate dissemination of information around the world upon demand.
With the arrival of each new age, the speed of change has left us wondering, where is this all going?
What's your defense against the dark arts, in business?
Ever had a bad day at the office? Ever had a tough week?
Maybe the last 2 years in business haven’t been what you hoped for.
Perhaps Harry Potter and his mates can relate.
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.
