As referenced in our podcast, Talking About Marketing, I just finished listening to the 4th Edition of Marilee Adams outstanding book, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life and I want to share some insights that might be helpful in business discussions or even in your personal life. Marilee Adams’ core concept is simple to remember, powerful […]

Something stopped me dead during my yoga practice last week and it impressed upon me the need for all of us to adopt an action orientation now rather than later. It was this quote from this segment, Aussies failing to prepare for emergencies, despite increased risk, on the AM program on the ABC on September […]

Working out how to empower people always involves building up both their confidence and competence, but deciding on which one to develop first is not always easy. I experienced the juggling act of increasing both my competence and confidence when I was a primary school student, as I learned to move around safely with a […]

In this era of companies letting staff go impersonally by SMS or email, it’s hard to find arguments to support the virtue of belonging to the brand. Why should you pour your heart and soul into a business if the owner is unlikely to value your loyalty, dropping you at a moment’s notice to suit […]

During my years of working as a consultant, I have regularly discerned a gap between leaders’ vision of what their teams should be doing and their teams’ understanding of and ability to do what they do. This is something I discuss in more detail with Steve in Series 2, Episode 4 of Talked About Marketing: […]

I’ve got a helpful hack for small business owners today that I shared recently on our Talking About Marketing Podcast, and again on Adelaide’s FIVEaa with Richard Pascoe. But it’s not what you call a traditional business hack. I was prompted to share this because right now, stress levels among many small business owners and […]