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
Asking great questions; It's better than finding simple answers
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers - Voltaire
Uncomfortable confessions from a conference - Knowing how 'you’ll deliver' is part of the attraction
I confess: there’s something that has baffled me for years but I've been too embarrassed to ask about, and now I wonder if I’m too old to bother.
- Last week at a business conference, a well-dressed supplier sidled up to me in public, and ogling my name tag asked, “So what's your value-proposition Drew?”
- I was taken aback. I've never been asked for one so directly. I remember immediately thinking, ‘I’m not sure you’re my type’ and ‘shouldn’t we at least have coffee first to get to know more about each other?’
I must say, the interaction left me feeling manhandled; and a little objectified, too.
What you really value you start today -(Tales from the dessert cart!)
Many things in life and business depend upon insights grown and tested over time.
A new way to look at round pegs
Small business, at its simplest form is about being able to manage and solve problems for people, just in time.
So why do many business owners say they regularly struggle to diagnose business problems correctly?
What if the problem they’re solving is the wrong one?
And what’s the long term outcome when you’re constantly pouring your limited time, focus and resources, into the wrong cup?
Learning how to think better in a team decision environment depends upon this skill
For a small business owner whose competitive advantage is their ability to out-think the competition, this is a problem we need to understand better.
And it starts with learning how to think better in a team decision environment. Never just trust your gut.
Beware the rise of the 'Chugger' - (aka the dreaded 'Charity Mugger')
It’s official: Australians are the world’s most generous people.
A study by Pro Bono Australia showed we’re the most generous people in the world followed by Ireland, then Canada and then New Zealand. Overall, 76% of Australians had given money to a good cause in the past month, 67% had helped a stranger, and more than a third had volunteered their time to a cause.
Our approach to generosity is even enshrined in one of our favourite idioms, ‘Everyone deserves a fair go’.
Anything else would be, well, un-Australian.
- Whos invested in your business?
- The evolving financial effects of prostate cancer surgery and how to mange this new risk
- What does it mean you have to spend money to make money?
- What happens when the dominos begin to fall in a business?
- How much money does your business owe you?
- The 7 Personality traits responsible for 85% of your success
- What a 9 year old boy taught me about courage
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.
