Recovering from Setbacks!

Recovering from Setbacks!

I was going through some long lost photos in my files when I stumbled on this photo of me after a stumble. It happened a few years ago when I was running a long, glorious 10-miler (16 Km) through hill country along a fairly notorious muddy road. As is my wont, I found...
From the Vault: Make It Happen!

From the Vault: Make It Happen!

Success in business is as much about attitude as it is about aptitude. If you feel good about business when you contemplate the next twelve months, the odds are that you’re going to do really well. Life is full of self-fulfilling prophecies. Feel positive, expect...
Pay it forward

Pay it forward

I’ve often seen those words ‘pay it forward’ but I have rarely seen any really great examples of people actually doing so. Yes, once or twice you hear that someone pays for the person behind them in the queue or something similar but nothing really mind blowing. Well,...
Top Five Career Regrets?

Top Five Career Regrets?

Over at Harvard Business Review (publication date unknown), Daniel Gulati, an entrepreneur based in New York City, discusses his informal study of people’s biggest regrets about their career. He talked to professionals who ranged in age and represented a variety of...
Getting better at it!

Getting better at it!

Now, I know that this story is apocryphal and the incident never really happened, but wouldn’t it be great if all of our team members could think on their feet and deliver the right words at the right time. A man in Melbourne walked into the produce section of his...
Missing any skills?

Missing any skills?

In an article titled 7 Job Skills that Have Stood the Test of Time on the seek.com.au website the author details what they believe them to be. Maybe worth checking to see if you or team members need to brush up on some of them. Here they are briefly listed; you can...