Kevin “financial crisis” Rudd may not be exactly a modern day Chicken Little, but he is part of the problem that is multiplying the reductio…
Kevin “financial crisis” Rudd may not be exactly a modern day Chicken Little, but he is part of the problem that is multiplying the reductio…
The great thing about retail is that it’s a day-to-day business – sometimes an hour-to-hour business – as shoppers’ emotions swing from doub…
Take heart. There has been a stream of good news in the last week that should cheer up any business owner. The latest out today is that US s…
OK, the big banks in the US have survived the visit from 35 bank regulators and only have to top up their capital in case the worst is yet t…
Take yesterday’s employment numbers from the ABS with a grain of salt, but don’t ignore them. The bureau’s survey sample is 30,000, wh…
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch declared overnight that it is “increasingly clear that the worst is over” for the US economy. He’d better pray…
The gap between the market’s ruddy optimism and the gloom pervading officialdom widened a little more this morning. The European Commi…
So Michel Hogan and I got invited together to a lunch. As part of our back chatter (using the free Skype Instant Messenger), I pointed out t…
We all know Jim Collins, who wrote those entrepreneurial tomes “Good to Great” and “Built to Last”. The books explore the vexing question ab…
One of the franchise industry’s favourite pitches to potential franchisees is that the failure rate in franchising is much lower than small…
Paco Underhill, an environmental psychologist, market researcher and author of books such as Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, says the e…
Shell shocked by the walloping tail of recession? Well it’s time to spring into action. And guess who you should see first? Your accountant….
