Staff members should be able to take a break without sending your business into chaos. There are ways to prepare. Coping with lossThis next…
Staff members should be able to take a break without sending your business into chaos. There are ways to prepare. Coping with lossThis next…
The highly competitive education and training market became a rocky proving ground for 20-something Vitreous founder Marcus Sellen. He talks…
Dear Aunty B,
It’s tight and we’re coming up towards Christmas when I traditionally give pay rises at my office. But I have…
The web seems to have led to an expectation that everything “internet” should be free. Where does that leave many businesses? Open source e…
You have mail: you’re firedIs Google getting into social networking? The counter-offer as a retention strategyGoogle DoubleClick deal in t…
Ever thought about benchmarking your life for a profit & loss account? You might find it instructive. Measure it, manage itI’ve been in a b…
Dear Aunty B,
I just hired a new staff member, Gen-Y, of course. Her duties include some menial tasks: she is expected to get t…
“Where are the women?” is the headline of a story in AFR Boss magazine today. It looks at the abysmal record of large Australian corpora…
A good business leader knows when to follow; when to accept that the professionals you’ve hired really do know better than you. I hea…
Help Aunty,
We are a small non-profit team of five and we’re sinking from a lack of leadership, lies, micro-management and bad…
What makes some organisations more OK than others as a place to work? It’s about the culture, and there are ways of improving it. Every o…
Personal assistants and sales reps are the most likely staff members to be sacked, according to a SmartCompany/Roy Morgan Poll released toda…
