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Which Prime Minister would you want as a friend?
The Magic of Thinking Big... Or Even Bigger Still
When I run seminars I ask people to set goals for the coming year. Few set what I would call big goals. Let’s say I am working with a sales team and I ask what they would all like to sell this year. Few tell me a figure that is significantly at odds with the target given to them by their managers. So if their manager has targeted them at 250k of sales they will tell me their goal is 250k of sales or at the outside 300k. Why not $1 million?

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Relationships
Which Prime Minister would you want as a friend?
The PR genius who fell from grace
Brilliance in public relations can sometimes be a two-edged sword. There are many unfortunate business cases in which a company launched a successful campaign which stimulated public imagination, then was unable to deliver on the promise. This article looks at the case of the Thai Prime Minister who used an armoury of PR weapons to win popularity and then fell from grace when those very same weapons were used against him.

SME's - entrepreneurs with no skills
South African universities have come under fire from the Minister of Education for producing too many arts graduates. What is the true cause of the problem?
How Business Boosts Development
The experience of the richer powers today shows that the private sector provides the base for a country's development, said Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada. Visitors to most developing countries see evidence of widespread entrepreneurship in bazaars and markets and of the skills possessed by local people. So why have these nations not also been able to make the same economic advances as countries in Europe and North America? One explanation he has heard, said Martin, is that indigenous business has no confidence that it will be able to overcome the various administrative barriers that dominate economic life, that property rights can be protected, or that legal systems can bring real justice. How far is this true? he asked his fellow panellists.

Micro-managing or managing minutely?
I’m involved in a lot of change management just now, particularly as the economic climate is forcing managers to look closely at getting the very best out of their people. Change often prompts fear for many; fear of the unknown, fear of losing their job. But if you, as the manager, have communicated clearly with your staff, then there will be no room for misunderstanding and doubt. One of the Prime Minister’s buzz words is transparency – making sure his communication strategies are clear and fair. Can you say the same for your own work practice?
Does the Present Buy American AccordBy-Pass Popular Opinion Relative to Protectionism
In the October 1st, 2009 Procurement Insights post titled “Buy American Policy: Economic Imperative or Popular Opinion,” I provided an excerpt from my interview with Canada’s Trade Minister Stockwell Day regarding the basis for the Buy American policy. It was of course the Minister’s expressed belief that popular American opinion surrounding protectionism was the basis for Congressional support of the conditions associated with the stimulus bill that would block Canadian firms from accessing the US government market, versus the existence of legitimate economic imperatives. In short, the U.S. Congress was yielding to public sentiments.
Mortgage Rates And Subprime Crisis – An Overview
The global subprime crisis had such far-reaching implications that it is impossible to spell out in a few sentences the large-scale affect it caused on the economy of the world. As expected, Canada too did not escape the worldwide wrath. The fallout has been extensive. Today, money borrowers are bombarded with terms such as prime mortgage rate and subprime mortgage rate. What do these expressions mean? A rudimentary understanding of different types of credit is as much essential as getting to know of terms such as Canada prime mortgage rate. First here is some nitty gritty of what prime interest rate is.
How to build a brilliant team
In the coming weeks, Prime Minister Julia Gillard will face a challenge that entrepreneurs know only too well - how to make teams work.

Women in business
I was speaking to someone from overseas the other day and he said he never thought he would see the day when Australia elected a female Prime Minister. His perception of Australia was that our culture was very ‘blokey’. So you would think that the appointment of Prime Minister Julia Gillard was the result of great change, an indication of how successful women have become in the workforce. Think again. In the recently published report by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency it made clear that the number of female key executive managers and board directors in the ASX 200 has hardly changed over the past eight years. In comparison with New Zealand, the UK, Canada, the US and South Africa, Australia has the lowest percentage of women in the most senior positions. So what exactly is going on?

The John Lewis effect – eat, sleep and breathe your brand values
In a recent speech on resolving the UK’s economic crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg referenced national department store, John Lewis, as an exemplary example of a share scheme which its staff enjoy and as a blueprint the UK would do well in copying. This got me to thinking about the often referenced John Lewis, as not only a fair employer, but also a trusted retail brand and innovator in sales and marketing. Below I have outlined a number of observations that if followed, brands could implement for better internal and external communications.
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