7 challenges to start-up success that must be overcome
Over the years I have helped a number of start-ups. Almost all have been single or a few people who have a drive to start something they own, where they can call the shots, and be away from the dead hand of corporate bureaucracy. Sometimes this has been...
The easiest and most effective way to build carbon emission compliance.
Now we have a legislated ceiling on carbon emissions, 'The safeguards mechanism' the challenge is to ensure compliance. That is the hardest part, yet to come. The means by which the emissions will be reduced by business are unregulated, but there is no doubt it...
The saviour we should celebrate, not hide.
Never before has the need for creativity been more critical. Never before have set about crushing creativity before it has a chance to bloom more than we do now. My nephew is dyslectic, always had trouble at school, with teachers, sitting still, and anything...
A marketers explanation of ‘Lean Accounting’
The double entry bookkeeping system we are familiar with, or should be, has been around for millennia. In the form we now know it, double entry bookkeeping was codified by Franciscan monk Luca Pacioli, a collaborator of Leonardo da Vinci in a mathematics...
The dilemma faced by the governments NRF.
The government's $15 Billion National Reconstruction Fund faces a range of strategic and management dilemmas. The Treasurer Jim Chalmers set out the governments priorities in his essay 'Capitalism after the crisis' in February. He called for focus on...
The start-up’s 3 card cash challenge.
A start-up funded with a cash stake from family, friends, and fools, supplemented by available savings has in its future one of only three options. It runs out of cash before the end of the 'runway'. Crash and burn. It extends the runway by finding more cash,...
How to persuade the unpersuadable
'If you want to change the world, change the metaphor'. Joseph Campbell Every storyteller knows how powerful metaphors are, we all use them to describe to ourselves and others, the complex situations and challenges we face. The tales our parents read us as...
Monopolies, prices and politics produce ugly children!
The dream of every entrepreneur is to have a monopoly, a place where they can set prices without any of those nasty competitive forces impacting on profits. Monopolies are the poison of public policy, it is why we have the many agencies that seek to ensure...
Why does Goliath never beat David?
Goliath, contrary to the stories, usually does win, it is just that we simply never hear about it. There is no drama, no unexpected outcome, no backstory of how little, under resourced David beat the giant who had all the advantages, and got away with the...
AI, a projected case study of its impact.
One of my sons is a radiographer, working in a large public hospital, carrying some management responsibility while still being 'on the tools' in an under-resourced, bureaucratic and highly structured environment. On one hand there is the health system,...