5 thoughts on Leadership
I am a student at University of Sydney, studying a Masters in International Studies. Recently we looked at leadership. Now there are many thoughts on leadership, here are five of my own.Leadership is not always formalThink Jesus, Ghandi or Mandela. If anything, their formal roles were consistently reduced, yet their leadership grew. Leading from a [...]
WordPress admin is really good
“will you have apps with that?”
>0.00% Google Analytics Interesting Results
Google analytics is a pretty nice package. However, i have heard some interesting stats being returned when you look to push it to the limits. This is not a post about that, rather an interesting result that was displayed interestingly! See for yourself, one thought i just had is that it is a rounding error… [...]
Twitter Jobs
Twitter is exploding and would no doubt be an excellent place to work right now. Heck, they might not have a business model part totally cracked, just yet, however, they are looking to hire and have some interesting roles. Twitter Jobs The one that looks most interesting in my opinion is the Business Dev role. [...]
software as a service
Top SASS applications…. that i have seen. 1: CRM – Sugar / Salesforce2: Accounting – Sassu3: Blogging – wordpress Sure that there are others. What is SASS – Software as a Service (SaaS, typically pronounced ‘sass’) is a model of software deployment where an application is licensed for use as a service provided to customers [...]
back to work monday
How many people are heading back to work today? Seems like the buses are full, the suits have been dusted off and the streets of the CBD are back humming with the sounds of tapping shoes as the bronzed bodies start of the new year… What will it hold? How long will the smiles last? [...]
Gift Cards Christmas 2008
Gift cards seem to be the new must have items for all retailers, banks and beyond for the Christmas 2008 rush.This vertical is interesting for me as i have family who live OS and so a gift card or gift certificate work quite well as an easy present. Interestingly westfield offers near centre wide usage [...]
Richard Branson – Business Stripped Bare
Good book about a well branded and sometimes well executed company. What really got my attention was that Virgin and Richard Branson, has created 8 billion dollar businesses in different markets. Thats pretty impressive. Get the book on Amazon
Top counter cyclical businesses
In these days of (probable) economic downturn, what will be the businesses that will continue to grow?1: Banks – people need somewhere to keep all the cash that is burning a hole in their pocket. So safe banks yes, smaller banks probably not.2: Liquidators – the ones who turn over valued and underperforming assets back [...]
Getting and keeping a Job
1: Make is rain – don’t wait to be told, look to solve the biggest problems at hand and drive the business forward as best you can. Make it rain! 2: Believe in what you do – if it is just a pay check, then you will not accelerate the business, learn the most you [...]
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