Blogs

As a business owner or indeed manager, you are expected to be across every rule and regulation that affects your business. Each rule on its own might seem innocuous enough but piled on top of each other becomes a mountain. And if you get it wrong, you are penalised. What if we demanded the same […]

Roy Morgan recently published a report that sounded alarmist: 25% of Australians believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk of human extinction in the next 20 years, up from 20% only 2 years earlier. It wasn’t until I sat down and thought about it that it became clear how much AI has already made inroads, […]

We expect businesses to have a so called “social license”, which means to do the right thing by the community it operates within. Probably the toughest field in which to secure a social license must be mining and value-added refining, so thought it appropriate to look at the comments about a lack of “social license” […]

Employers in all industries I speak to are suffering the same issues when it comes to finding suitably qualified employees, which then limits business growth and our ability to service our client bases, so it’s a problem that needs addressing from the whole of our society. Lower skilled roles are harder to fill than higher […]

The best use of money is when a person spends their own money for their own benefit, followed by a person spending their own money on someone else. The worst spender of money is when someone spends someone else’s money on others, which is what happens when Government spends taxpayers’ money. So, this week’s Economic/Productivity […]

Australia does not have enough money to build all the infrastructure we require. This will mean managing expectations as much as putting scarce resources (people and money) to the best use. There are ways this can be done without upsetting the apple cart, with benefits available to everyone if it is done right. Sometimes it […]

Australia’s productivity growth averaged only 0.9% per year over the 20 year period to 2022, and it has now dropped into negative so much that our average wealth declined by nearly 9% in the past 3 years, the worst performing country in the developed world. Everyone else is becoming more efficient, and we need to […]

Timing can be just about everything. Whether in business, family life, sports, comedy, relationships or other areas. A health diagnosis can even be the difference between life and death (not to be too dramatic…). Many times, we don’t have control or an ability to impact the timing, but what about the times we do? And […]

As long as there has been global trade, there has been market manipulation. It is therefore surprising at the hype and lack of understanding at what a tariff trade war actually is and what it means. The worst part is it has looked like amateur hour from all world “leaders” as well as a media […]

It has been tough for many businesses for a few years now to fill outstanding roles with good candidates. There isn’t a magic bullet for suddenly lifting the quality of the talent pool, but there are still some great strategies businesses can use to capture the good fit candidates that are there, as well as […]