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The Covid-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry wrapped up this week with counsel assisting submitting that the Government's failures were responsible for 768 deaths and the entire second wave in Victoria. Ken Phillips from Self Employed Australia has triggered a prosecution request by writing to the OHS authority - WorkSafe - under section 130 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). They are...

When you think of the word 'champion', you probably think of a 'winner' -somebody who takes first place. But the true meaning of champion is more than winning a competition. It's a 13th Century concept for a person who fights on behalf of another. A champion advocates for something or someone, especially when that someone cannot do it themselves. This is the noble goal of our political system but...

If you grew up in suburban Australia, you would be familiar with the green and gold trailers regularly appearing on our streets to mow our lawns. Jim’s Mowing has since expanded and the Jim’s Group is now the largest franchise in Australia and New Zealand with some 4,000 franchise owners turning over more than $500m a year serving 35,000 customers a day! But don’t let the blue-collar grass mowing...

Arron Wood is not your typical politician. In fact, I'm not sure he's a politican at all! Granted - he does hold the office of Deputy Lord Mayor for the City of Melbourne, and he is campaigning in next month's council elections to become the Lord Mayor. But when I came across Arron on social media, it wasn't via a political ad or a sponsored post. I simply noticed someone who was posting sympathet...

Today we are going to the gym. My guest Pia Therese is a small business owner in Melbourne, Australia who risked it all and opened a fitness studio called MFW Fitness. Under what is now likely the world's longest and most severe lockdown, small businesses like MFW have been smashed. And this is despite plenty of evidence that small businesses are not only willing but are capable of opening up in a...

Topher Field demands attention. Not for his own popularity - quite the opposite! In fact, he would rather the spotlight pass him by so he can quietly raise his young family in the suburbs of Melbourne. But when the world that you are raising those children into appears darker and more authoritarian than the world we grew up in, silence becomes complicity. For years Topher has warned us that the fr...

Damien Silm is an apple farmer in regional NSW who stands to inherit a fortune. I'm not referring to assets, to land or even to the legacy of his great-grandfather who planted those apple trees so many decades ago. It is clear to me that Damien, as one of the most empathetic people I know, will inherit the future as our world increasingly values empathy in all spheres of life.  Not only does...

Recessions, depressions and downturns are probably the most fertile ground to plant a new business. This is why, and this is how to get started! It's all based around research by the Harvard Business Review, Joseph Schumpeter, Peter Drucker and Bain&Company. In this podcast we explore:   The demise of Australian companies. Global C-Suite retirements. Employees re-evaluating their careers....

Are you better at managing uncertainty or risk ? They are not the same thing, and we all gravitate toward one side of the spectrum. All leadership/management jobs are primarily about managing uncertainty or risk , and yet often we fail in careers and in business not because we are ineffective, but because they are mismatched to our strengths. In this episode we discuss: the difference uncertainty...

Competent crisis leadership isn't just about taking wise action, it's about persuading people to carry out those actions. The CEO of Toyota used a 3-Step Crisis Model for communicating and it is far more effective than what world leaders are doing right now. Use this to rally your people and get them through a crisis! Download the 3-Step Crisis Model PDF at https://www.discernable.io/post/crisis-m...

Discretionary effort can predict the future when it comes to staff turnover. Use it as a leading indicator! Read about it here: https://www.discernable.io/post/discretionary-effort-can-predict-the-future

Getting people's attention with mere words is our aim in every single email but the more we write, the more we dilute any potential impact. This is a short podcast on why you should cut anything you write in half and a tool that will help you do it.

What is strategy? Does your organisation even have a strategy? These 5 profound questions will identify (or create) a business strategy, and comes thanks to the Harvard Business Review. You can read the original article at https://www.discernable.io/post/strategy5 .

Is it really important? Or just URGENT masquerading as 'important'? We conflate them all the time. It's tempting to chase urgency but that's a counterfeit of the significance we truly crave: growth activities that are important but never urgent. Meet the Eisenhower Boxes and the Macro Priority Matrix. They help us to properly prioritise our time and teach us how to: avoid trading boredom for urgen...