News/Media Announcements: April 2024
Strategy + Structure + Conduct = Performance
Could success in business be reduced to a simple formula?
Perhaps each component of this formula embodies the critical elements that drive success. And perhaps without all three pieces of the formula, the other two simply do not have enough …
Read more
Advisory Boards. Are they worth the effort?
A friend of mine was descending the long path from the Acropolis back to the centre of Athens. It was a hot day, and the path was dusty. A rather large gentleman with a heavy camera around his neck was struggling up the hill towards Tony. His sweaty …
Read more
When Cash is NOT King
An old saying in business:
Growth is Vanity | Profit is Sanity | Cash is King
We reiterated this saying many times over the years. However, that concept of ‘cash’ does not relate to the folding stuff under the counter.
We have come …
Read more
Calling for help… timing is everything!
“I hate my business now. I just want out”.
Unfortunately, we have heard this desperate plea too many times over the years. For some of those business owners, it was… too little, too late. Big losses, big debt, big task ahead. At best it …
Read more
Watch those input rising prices
If you didn’t live through the hyperinflation of the 1970’s, you might be caught napping!
For the fifth time this year, I met with a business owner about to face an avalanche of trouble. Business is booming for these people. Their order books …
Read more
‘Transition Ready’ Businesses are connected to better financial performance
Sometime surveys reveal some interesting insights
Since 2005, Family Business Australia & Family Business New Zealand have run a survey of the issues facing families who run a business together. The results of the 2021 survey have just been …
Read more
Now that’s a Boat
Client Profile: Status Houseboats
Puzzle… what is 3 stories high, has 5 bedrooms, 3 ½ bathrooms, 2 kitchens, an elevator, reverse cycle air-conditioning, floor heating, solar panels and built to the standard of the most exquisite homes in …
Read more
Client Profile: Burgess Rawson
Where success was always the plan.
In June this year, the iconic mid-tier Commercial Real Estate agents, Burgess Rawson announced the merger of their Eastern Seaboard practices. Another amazing step in their decade long strategy to build an …
Read more
Client Profile: Andrew McConnell
Extraordinary talent, successful entrepreneur, culinary legend
In this world, only a small handful of people ever achieve the absolute pinnacle in their field. Be it sport, entertainment, politics or business. Or food & beverage. It is …
Read more
Hello Job Maker?
Just as Job Keeper becomes a distant memory, clients are now asking, what about Job Maker? It has been with us since the October Federal budget, but (backdated) payments only commenced in February 2021.
At $10,400 for an under 30-year-old new …
Read more