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A recent decision by the full bench of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission shows employers should be protected from costs incurre…

People are always looking for what makes a leader inspiring. Of course it is someone who consistently succeeds, who gets runs on the board a…

I travelled to Sydney recently and sat next to the COO of a prominent company. He explained to me he had real concern about the talent manag…

Dear Aunty B,

I can’t believe it. Everywhere I go I hear talk about the recovery. But here is what happened to me last week…

Get cre…

I caught up with one of my favourite entrepreneurs for lunch the other day. He was like a ‘pig in mud’ as he explained his employment stra…

Dear Aunty,

First an apology to you personally, as I was one of the disbelievers who wrote in and told you that everything was hunky dory…

A few months ago it was reported that trust in business has plummeted, yet trust is considered a key determinant to success. This should be …

Given the evidence from the US and Europe, showing growing levels of unemployment and the strong advice from major lending institutions that…

Have you given any thought to what your business might look like at two or five times its current size? It is an exercise well worth underta…

Dear Aunty B,

After surviving until now, I find that I need to let some staff go. The obvious person to go is paid a lot. He also lacks n…

So far this year has been stressful for my team, we are all overworked, tired and tempers are getting frayed. I wanted to organise a team da…

I agree that the best tennis coach in the world doesn’t have to have Roger Federer’s skills on the court. I agree that the best swimming coa…