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I caught up with a friend and colleague, recently, for coffee. We’ve known each other for yonks. Probably 25 years. We’ve played in the same space, in the same area, for a while, and our professional trajectories, whilst originally quite close, have shot off in two completely different directions.
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Watch any television drama or movie set in the Second World War in the United Kingdom, and invariably, you’ll see a sign that says “Loose Lips, Sink Ships”. It’s a term my mother-in-law, who lived through the London Blitz, would drop from time to time. They were dark days, 80 plus years ago, and with espionage running high, you didn’t know sometimes, whether someone you spoke with, was on the same side.
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“Logic makes you think: Emotion makes you act”. So says Alan Weiss, one of my business mentors. He’s right of course….most of the time.
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I was looking at the financials of a large corporate, recently. As you do!
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When our children are younger, we parent them to show them the way to lead life. “Don’t do this”. “Make sure you do that”. “Watch out for these dangers”. You get the drill.
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It’s 1985. It’s my last year of high school. Sting had embarked on his solo career a couple of years previously and the radio airwaves were dominated equally by him, Phil Collins and Dire Straits.
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Men are particularly poor at taking care of themselves. I’m not talking about their diet, exercise, or how much they drink. I’m talking about their mental health and how it impacts them and the people around them. The old Australian adage of “she’ll be right” is a smokescreen for not wanting to deal, with what’s going on inside.
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A search on Google suggests that 1 in 3 jobs are never publicly advertised in Australia. Another search suggests that up to 80% of executive positions are also not publicly advertised. The term that seems to be bandied about for this, is “the hidden job market”.
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Was it the sound of the waves crashing on the beach, that were ever present throughout our stay, that did it?
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What’s changing in your profession, in the way that it’s delivered or produced by you, or the way that it’s consumed by your customers, that could be impacting your business, positively, or negatively?