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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:
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My wife and I have recently returned from an 11 night cruise aboard the Celebrity Eclipse around New Zealand. It was the fifth re-book of a cruise originally scheduled to depart out of Miami in March 2020 that we managed to cancel just prior to the world falling apart.
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I would contest that more than 80% of small and family business owners have it all wrong! They’re on the wrong path and, in the process, they’re slogging themselves to death. It’s not because of what they’re doing, it’s because of the “why”? Let me explain.
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I was talking to a colleague in the financial space recently and we discussed the quality of financial information inside of small and family businesses.
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A couple of weeks back, CPA Australia invited me to speak again, this time in Launceston for the Tasmanian Public Practice Symposium. What I love about these events is to have the opportunity to talk with accountants to small and family business, not only about their clients, but their own businesses and what they’re doing to value add to their own service offer.
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“There’s so much to do” remarked my clients at the very start of our meeting. “We’re struggling to fit it all in” they continued, as we continued our pleasantries over the takeaway coffees they’d brought along to our regular quarterly meeting.
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Why is everyone looking for a quick fix? Impatience? Not quite committed to the cause? Left it too late to do something, so you’re playing catchup?
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I recently ventured to Perth to present at a CPA Australia event at the Rendezvous Hotel, Scarborough Beach. The hotel is perched right on the Indian Ocean, so the view up and down the coastline from my balcony was magnificent.
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I wandered into my favourite coffee haunt early one morning and something was different. Very different!
Right near the front door was a dead patch. It was a dilapidated garden that had become a parking spot for old furniture. It wasn’t untidy, but it was a little unsightly. Except for this particular morning.
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Confession time! I’ve never liked beer. Ever. The smell, the taste, they both disagree with my pallet.
It all started when I was 14. Monday afternoons, after leaving Palm Beach Currumbin High School, I’d head home via the newsagency on the Gold Coast Highway and pick up the Sydney Morning Herald. Back in 1982, it arrived on the plane from Sydney late morning, so a quick detour was my weekly routine.