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How NOT to do a Deal

How NOT to do a Deal It’s been over two years in the making, with highly educated and powerful so called “elites” in charge and has played out daily over the news like a poorly scripted soap opera. It is a case study for Universities and all senior leaders on how NOT to negotiate and […]

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What you get for an hour

It’s interesting to compare people’s expectations of what they should pay for something. Why can some occupations or people charge several times more per hour than others? What is the correlation between charged rate and the cost of the service provided?

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Knowing Good People

  Another year is upon us, and I predict it to be a tumultuous one. Or as Donald Rumsfeld famously said: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — […]

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Tidying up the business pay pen

From 1st of July 2019, the Federal Government will be making all their supplier payments in 20 days, down from the current 30 days. They are also working to get all State Governments to do the same, with NSW committed already. But the biggest change will come from the big step of forcing large corporations […]

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Tackling the issues that never get talked about

Picture yourself in this situation. You receive a lawyer’s letter that you are being sued for a bullying and/or harassment incident. Allegations are made about an event that happened some months ago, but it is construed that it has been ongoing for some time. Whilst only scant details are available at this point in time, […]

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ALLU Screening & Processing Bucket

We recently dropped off a bucket to a composting business & ran organic material through the bucket. The previous process involved putting compost through the screening plant to retain the small particle size portion, with the majority of the material being oversize and ending up in the waste pile. The stock piles that the customer […]

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Cash flow – the life of your business

Cash is like blood that flows through the body: if it stops then the patient will die, even if the patient is otherwise healthy. A recent study by East & Partners found that for 86% of Construction companies their biggest issue is cash flow. Whether your business is growing (which is why 59% of businesses […]

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