Change, taxes and death – life’s certainties

My high school year book proudly declares “We survived change!” Interstate, international, countless local moves and a couple of career changes later, I still agree. In business, as in life, we experience highs and lows. Economies fluctuate, people come...

Just saying…

Who doesn’t, even the most modest and unassuming, once in a while enjoy a small moment of self-congratulatory gloating. So, here’s our five minutes in the sun, followed by a curly question for which we need your Point of View. Twice in the last three years...

Trust: Build it and they will thrive.

Turnover is expensive. Conservatively estimated to be at least one and half times the annual salary attached to the role vacated. When turnover results in reputational damage, the costs can escalate exponentially. Not all turnover is bad, but when it’s...

Excellence on repeat

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation… We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit… Aristotle 322 BC What makes a business relationship successful? Aristotle was onto something when he identified excellence as a learned...