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Our bank accounts have been hacked! Rather than feel ashamed (as many of the 116 reported cases per day do), I’ve decided to share how it happened “play by play”, and what it has cost us. If you think this won’t happen to you, wait until you read how they did it…

On both a personal and business level, I’ve always supported giving “the local little guy” a go over the big players. The reasoning is twofold: if there are no alternatives to the big players available to keep price and quality competitive, the small players will disappear and that would be a really bad outcome. The […]

What makes wealth? Strip it right back, and it comes down to making the most of the resources available. This is often referred to as productivity and applies to capital and labour. Productivity = Output/Input, which means that the higher the ratio the more competitive you are. The trend is just as important, as it […]

Sometimes the solutions to problems have been staring us in the face for a very long time before we accept and implement them. Usually, it comes down to either not knowing some options are possible (like the below building and Earth Moving examples), or in many cases wilfully keeping blinkers on. This is the sad […]

It’s a national sport to kick a company when something goes wrong. Despite all the quality and approvals systems in the world, there will always be a weak link in any process that can cause a major fault. Here are some examples of how it can go wrong from the construction, mining and finishing with […]

What do the USA, China, Sweden, and Israel have in common? Over the years, necessity has forced them to become largely self-sufficient. Sweden and Israel both have roughly 10 million people, or about 40% of what Australia has, so it’s not all about population size and the size of the domestic economy excuse doesn’t hold […]

Usually within hours of a Federal budget, there is plenty of commentary on what the budget means, how it will work, and who will benefit. This time though, crickets, which is because the changes are the most complicated and ill thought through in history. The hardest hit will be the aspirational middle class especially renters […]

We’re all sick of hearing about the fuel crisis already. But it’s vital for businesses (and people) to understand what the effects of this are to manage the situation. This article is not about what type of car people should have to get to work. Fossil fuels feeds into nearly every part of our lives, […]

Dubbed the “AI apocalypse”, in the space of 1 week, 10’s of thousands of previously safe data coding jobs were lost at leading IT developers. These “jobs of the future” that our young have been pushed towards for the past decade have now been replaced by computers programming computers. AI is exponentially more disruptive than […]

If someone is walking around with their fly down, do you tell them? Short term humiliation is almost guaranteed for both persons, so most avoid the hard task but in the process cause a worse situation for the poor unaware “flasher”. There are many written and unwritten rules in workplaces that prohibit the truth about […]