Three Things You Can Do Right Now to Strengthen Your Brand
Three Things You Can Do Right Now to Strengthen Your Brand
Posted 327 days ago

What compels someone to jump over to the dark side of entrepreneurship? By dark side, I refer to the great uncertainty that entrepreneurs need to often embrace to move forward successfully. You need to be prepared to bump your shin…

Three Things You Can Do Right Now to Strengthen Your Brand
Lessons in Customer Service From a Moron at a Restaurant
Lessons in Customer Service From a Moron at a Restaurant
Posted 349 days ago

A couple of weeks ago a friend and I took up a Groupon style offer for a 3 course meal at a restaurant in Sydney. It seemed like great value, but as we walked up to the restaurant, we couldn't…

Lessons in Customer Service From a Moron at a Restaurant
4 Reasons You Should Probably be Charging More
4 Reasons You Should Probably be Charging More
Posted 370 days ago

Working with creative and social entrepreneurs, I get to meet some really interesting and great people, with unique insights, perspectives and ambitions. Having said that, most businesses I work with are not extremely innovative in the general product or service…

4 Reasons You Should Probably be Charging More
Toys and Tools for Consuming & Creating: An Imperative Question for a Meaningful Life
Toys and Tools for Consuming & Creating: An Imperative Quest…
Posted 375 days ago

We live in a world where it's so easy to be consumed by the hi-tech consumer products we get access to. Tablets, eBook readers, and smart phones are just 3 examples of many such devices. Most of these devices are…

Toys and Tools for Consuming & Creating: An Imperative Quest…
Bruce Lee and the Fear of Corporatism
Bruce Lee and the Fear of Corporatism
Posted 398 days ago

Working with creative and social entrepreneurs, and community service organisations, is extremely interesting because of the significant differences between each and every organisation I interact with. There are also a lot of similarities obviously, and unfortunately many of them are…

Bruce Lee and the Fear of Corporatism
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Three Things You Can Do Right Now to Strengthen Your Brand

April 2, 2011

What compels someone to jump over to the dark side of entrepreneurship? By dark side, I refer to the great uncertainty that entrepreneurs need to often embrace to move forward successfully. You need to be prepared to bump your shin against some furniture, as you stumble in the dark for a while, looking for that [...]

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Lessons in Customer Service From a Moron at a Restaurant

March 11, 2011

A couple of weeks ago a friend and I took up a Groupon style offer for a 3 course meal at a restaurant in Sydney. It seemed like great value, but as we walked up to the restaurant, we couldn’t have guessed that we were in for a shocking disappointment. The food wasn’t great, but [...]

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What You Must Know About Getting, Keeping and Rewarding Volunteers

March 2, 2011

Some of the best creative and social entrepreneurs start off with a sketchpad, and that’s about it. Alone, trapped in their own mind with a brilliant idea, struggling to get it out on a page and make it happen. Many of them do make it happen! Somehow. But still usually alone, and the struggle becomes [...]

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4 Reasons You Should Probably be Charging More

February 18, 2011

Working with creative and social entrepreneurs, I get to meet some really interesting and great people, with unique insights, perspectives and ambitions. Having said that, most businesses I work with are not extremely innovative in the general product or service they provide, and all to many make the critical mistake of trying to compete on [...]

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Toys and Tools for Consuming & Creating: An Imperative Question for a Meaningful Life

February 13, 2011

We live in a world where it’s so easy to be consumed by the hi-tech consumer products we get access to. Tablets, eBook readers, and smart phones are just 3 examples of many such devices. Most of these devices are feature-packed, and are designed to be as-much-of-everything-in-one-as-possible tools. I feel very blessed to have some [...]

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