Dear Aunty B, I am in advertising sales and want to know how to change the behaviour of my clients. Many of them are really picky about wher…
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Dear Aunty B, I am in advertising sales and want to know how to change the behaviour of my clients. Many of them are really picky about wher…
Dear Aunty B, I have always regarded myself as a great manager. However, while performance reviewing two of my staff I was told that I was m…
Dear Aunty B, I have just left a job in a corporate office and am renting part of an office from a friend. She is also sub-letting anothe…
Dear Aunty B, I recently handed over half my job to a new person who is ‘meant’ to be my boss. But he shouldn’t be based on his performan…
Dear Aunty B, I started working at a new company a few months ago. In my first month, I couldn’t understand why I never seemed to have an…
Dear Aunty, I need a dose of Aunty B to cheer me up. What happened is this: I presented my budget to my board last week and it was based v…
Dear Aunty B, We have a senior employee who is a really big name and is on the speaker circuit, for example, but he can’t run a business for…
Dear Aunty, I am starting up a niche service business in a heavily regulated, highly political, slow to respond, non- innovative and high-ba…
Dear Aunty B, I run a creative agency in inner city Melbourne and, as you can imagine, the staff are a mix of very young, hip things. Eve…
Dear Aunty, I have a small team of eight from which I appointed one to oversee, conduct regular meetings, be their mouthpiece, etc. Howe…
Dear Aunty B. I want to sell my online business. And badly. The business has been up just over a year. During that time, despite the 80-o…
This article first appeared on December 16, 2009. Dear Aunty B, We have made a big investment in sales staff this year in order to boost …
