Edition 486 – Stop Parenting
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.
Edition 485 – Set Them Free
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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.
Edition 484 – Repair-Resilience-Reinvention
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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.
Edition 483 – Orbit Recruitment
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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”.
Edition 482 – Regeneration
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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?
Edition 481 – A Changing Marketplace
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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?
Edition 480 – Electoral Impact
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I’ve long held the belief that Federal Elections adversely impact small and family businesses. It’s talked about in the media, but never truly at the micro level – that is, how it works inside of an individual business. Until now!
Edition 479 – Tough Calls
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Sometimes, things don’t work out in business. You come up with an idea. You scope it out. You put it all together. You roll it out. Then, no matter the reason, it simply doesn’t fire. It doesn’t generate the response that you had hoped for, even though you’ve given it time, which leads you to making a tough call.
Edition 478 – A Glitch In The System
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A regular, weekly newsletter arrives from a great friend and trusted colleague, at the same time each week. When a moment arrives in the diary to clear some things, I dial in and take a look. Except, it looks and sounds a lot like last week’s missive. Like, word for word. I reach out to my friend, who responds somewhat frustratingly, later in the day, that she’d also picked that up. Apparently, there was a “glitch in the system” according to the individual tasked with lining up the newsletter, that meant it was doubled up.
Edition 477 – The Cockpit
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When I disembark an aircraft, if I happen to be exiting past the cockpit, I generally take a split second to look in. Usually the captain and the first officer are either standing up and taking a stretch, or completing some notes.