Business Advice
To influence behaviour change, find the angles
Over the break I was able to dabble in one of my hobbies, stone carving – taking a hammer and chisel to a block of hard rock to see what e…
Richard Branson on the best way to frame a question
The power of positive thinking is one of the oldest ideas in the world of business advice, but billionaire Richard Branson offered some choi…
Basecamp co-founder Jason Fried on why all companies must be prepared to kill off ideas
As a business grows over time, new ideas will evolve, and shelving past ideas becomes a necessity, no matter how successful they were.
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Winemakers’ Federation welcomes government’s complaint over Canada’s “disadvantageous” imported wine rules
A trade dispute between Australia and Canada over Aussie wine exports has taken a new turn, with the Turnbull government filing a complaint …
Meet Zookal: A startup with AI capabilities pushing the limits
From a bedroom-based startup to a multi-million dollar company with strong roots in Asia, Zookal’s young entrepreneurs have created so…
Pressure mounts on businesses to stop listing Chinese territories as countries
Australian small businesses are being reminded to educate themselves about key political issues in China, after Chinese authorities have ord…
Former cafe manager fined $27,000 for underpayments after court finds he was seeing what he could “get away” with
The former manager of an Oliver Brown chocolate outlet at Surfers Paradise has been penalised more than $27,000 after employees were underpa…
What the New Year’s sales tell us about business strategy
Now that the 2017 Christmas and 2018 New Year’s retail sales have ended, it seems as though there’s a mixed bag of results at the top en…
Satya Nadella on building success: “It’s the batting average that counts”
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella admits the company was “perhaps a little late” to face one of the most disruptive technological shif…
Former travel agent ordered to pay consumers $24,000 after three families found holidays weren’t booked
The Townsville Magistrates Court has ordered a former travel agent to pay three families $24,000 in compensation after she plead guilty to f…
