Edition 380 – The Greatest Privilege
My wife and I took a road trip recently. Part of it was to catch up with my mother in Tamworth, in North Western New South Wales to check on her progress, post Lung Cancer treatment.
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My wife and I took a road trip recently. Part of it was to catch up with my mother in Tamworth, in North Western New South Wales to check on her progress, post Lung Cancer treatment.
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It’s cold in this part of the world. Not the northern hemisphere, locked up in my house for months with nothing but white outside type of cold. (I’m looking at you, Phil Symchych in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada).
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At the moment, one of the big four accounting, audit and consulting firms is in the news for all the wrong reasons. One could argue the firm’s modern trading name might stand for:
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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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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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If business is slow and you’re not winning much new work of late, look in the mirror.
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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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Last night, the Federal Treasurer, Dr Jim Chalmers, handed down the Albanese Government’s second budget. Some of what was announced was already known, it having been rolled out as Government policy over recent months.
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During our recent New Zealand cruise, we took the opportunity on one of the sea days to listen to a talk by the staff captain on the Celebrity Eclipse about life working on cruise ships.
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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: