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For a few years there, when our sons were younger, we’d venture to the Anglican Church in Camden on Christmas Eve, and take in the late afternoon, family service. The Reverend at the time, Tony Galea, made a point of making it fun, as well as spiritual.
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Business performance can ebb and flow for many reasons. A product takes off, and you find you’ve established a market for something new. So, think Kombucha, that weird tasting drink, that seems to have its own following.
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Summer has hit with a vengeance, even towards late Spring. We’ve had multiple days over 30 degrees already – including some in the mid-thirties. The ground is drying out fast. You can see the grass turn from green to brown, almost before your eyes.
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As I’ve, let’s say, matured, I’ve become more interested in people. What makes them tick? What path they’re on? What drives them? It’s not always been that way, I’d have to tell you.
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I’ve wondered for a while, now, whether there is a co-relation between families who required their younger children to perform chores throughout their childhood, to those children becoming adult children and being prepared to take on roles and tasks inside of a family business, that they might not like to do, but which they understand helps to push the business forward.
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It’s the middle of the night. You reach a certain age, where a bathroom break, in the dark is required. Perhaps that’s too much information?
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Woohoo! 500 editions. That’s a pretty phenomenal effort in my books, even if I say so myself. For almost a decade, I’ve been putting these newsletters out each week, save for our traditional (at least in Australia) two week Christmas shutdown, each year, surely itself one of the most glorious times of the year, especially so in the city I love, Sydney.
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In business, we’re presented with opportunities, and options, on a daily basis. Some of them come from outside, be it from observing what others are doing, or someone making a suggestion, that triggers an idea for us. Others are moments of clarity that pop into our head. A new product or service line. New potential employees, that could add value to our business. A different way of doing things, that might improve output, or efficiency.
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I was reading an article in the Australian Financial Review recently about the Australian tech giant, Atlassian. In essence, it was suggested the purpose and values the owners started Atlassian with seem to have been lost, in their quest to get bigger.
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Sometime, I can’t figure out if family business owners are lazy, or scared, when it comes to marketing their businesses.