I’ve been a casual student of Stoic philosophy for many years and in particular of the slave philosopher Epictetus. I was first introduced…
I’ve been a casual student of Stoic philosophy for many years and in particular of the slave philosopher Epictetus. I was first introduced…
Every week I see the stories trumpeted across the pages of the business press. “Brand launch”, as if it is a space shuttle shimmering wi…
It is easy to get lost in the labyrinth of business motivation – vision, mission, promise, purpose goals, cause, reason to believe, but…
Michelle Melbourne co-founded software company Intelledox in Canberra back in 1999. Today, the business has a staff of 40 and offices as …
Jim Collins (author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t) stimulates a thought that many sales managers sho…
I’m taking a break from answering questions this week to recap an event from last week, when I was fortunate enough to attend the Growth S…
What separates the good companies from the great?
This was the topic of a three-hour session with business guru Jim Collins in Melbou…
Nearly every organisation I work with gets a bit of a reading list from me. I can’t seem to help myself because much of my thinking about …
In business, as in life, there are certain principles by which your company is guided. These principles are inherent in every service or goo…
Thousands of new business books are published each month, but how do you know which ones are worth your hard-earned cash?
SmartCompany as…
I often talk about brand as being evolution not revolution. And reading a book over the weekend about the impact of denial by leaders on ev…
Jim Collins (uber guru and author of Built to Last, Good to Great, How the Mighty Fall and Great by Choice) has brought us many strategic co…
