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Edition 377 – Dear Virgin Australia, You’re Sacked!

Dear Virgin Australia,
 
We’ve supported you, through thick and thin, for 20 years. We watched you disrupt the market, offer a better service and ensure there was true competition in the Australian airline industry. Individually, as a couple and as a family, we’ve flown multiple times with you over those two decades, including on the Los Angeles leg you once operated, more than a dozen times.

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Edition 376 – The Look

I’m working with a great family business at the moment and the project is exciting as a major transformation is underway. We’re meeting weekly as we make gradual steps towards the evolution of a new role for a key individual of a well respected, long standing business.

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Edition 374 – The Right Team

I love working with family businesses. It’s the most dynamic environment I know. To be invited into people’s lives and help them build a better life for themselves and their families is both an honour and a pleasure. Every time I finish up a meeting with a client, I’m often excited for “what’s next” for them out of the work we’ve done together.

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Edition 371 – Eclipsed The Field

In the autobiography written by triple Formula 1 World Champion, Sir Jackie Stewart*, he recalls the story of he and his team mate, the late Graham Hill, being instructed to slow down by their team manager in the 1965 Italian Grand Prix at the famed Monza Circuit as they were well ahead of the field with 13 laps to go:

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