Modern Small Business Leadership
Welcome to our Modern Small Business Leadership Blog
Life, Love & Business – it's a phrase we often use to explain the everyday interconnection between our business lives and our personal lives — all for the purpose of protecting and providing for those we love and nurturing our key relationships.
Our experience is most people want to be better people, to run better businesses and be better able to contribute to their communities and families in more meaningful ways. At its core of course, is the drive of leadership; who you are when nobody's looking, what you believe (and what you don't) who you value, what you support, and how you choose to show up in the world around you. Leadership is how we live (and work) with purpose and become that change we want to see in the world around us.
Our Modern Small Business Leadership Blog is for people who want to actively grow themselves, their businesses, and their community – so they can all live a bigger life.
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision”
― Peter F. Drucker
How much do motives matter?
This business question has always irritated me
There are many ways to do good in business, just as there are many motivations for doing so.
So what qualifies as a good motive, a bad motive, or just a nice idea?
Want the biggest benefit for your buck? Now you're thinking like a Philanthropist
Small Business Philanthropy - and it’s not about money
What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘philanthropy’?
Perhaps big businesses with big budgets and big personalities like Buffett, Gates, and Oprah or just a word that's really hard to spell? But where does small business fit into the conversation about philanthropy, business social responsibility (BSR), and giving back to the community in meaningful ways?
Here's a funny thing about maps
Tom Street in the Sydney suburb of Ermington can be found on map 212 of the 2005 UBD Sydney Street Directory.
But you’ll have a problem trying to drive there; because it’s not actually there. A quick search of Google Maps satellite imaging confirms that it never was there.
It’s a fake street.
When is enough learning, enough?
How often have you found yourself at a conference or training course only to find the only real usable value you’re taking home, is the value you created for yourself?
Good boundaries make for good businesses
Over the years I’ve learned that good boundaries make for good businesses.
The new role didn’t feel anything like it was supposed to — and the commercial world suddenly is not what it first seems
Life changes when your first child arrives, life changes when your first staff member arrives too.
You start to scan the horizon for threats and may even begin to see the business world around you as a less than welcoming environment in which you have to find a safe path through for your team to thrive.
- Jesus, long hair and how bias affects my business decisions
- Diversity matters – is your website a little too white?
- When should a business express an opinion on a moral or social issue?
- Dissenters and trouble makers are not the same thing
- The business case for becoming a present person
- Grumpy Dry Cleaners and the curse of cat hair
- Embrace your inner commodity - you know you have to
Get Prepared for Business
Protect your Small Business (and the Family who supports it) from the statical realities of Life, Love and Business we all face.
