Archive for May, 2008

Don’t let IT people manage your IT

By admin at 28 May, 2008, 1:56 pm

A couple of years ago I accepted an offer to work in Advertising. Having a background in Information Technology (IT) and Accounting, it seemed like an odd career move, but it was a good one. The trade off was that I would learn a lot about mass marketing, and the agency would get me to [...]

The 5 Intangibles of Raising Funding

By admin at 21 May, 2008, 12:06 pm

In mid 1999, I had a multimedia business called Carradale Associates. Apart from building websites, we were starting to do some cool work in online animation and getting some fairly interesting insights into online business. One of those insights was that an online auction business would do well in Australia. At that stage, Ebay was [...]

Failing or Flailing?

By admin at 12 May, 2008, 10:16 am

In the late 80’s when I was training to be an Army Reserve Officer, one of the major training (and leadership development) techniques that had a major impact on me was ownership of failure. If you taught a lesson and more than a handful of people failed the quick test at the end, then you [...]

Sticky Labels

By admin at 6 May, 2008, 1:37 pm

Instead of writing some amazing strategy insight, I thought Id pass on a simple tip that will save you time and frustration when dealing with your computer.
When I started an IT Services business called Edion in 2000, we had one spare computer used for centrally storing and sharing all our stuff. This file server [...]

Acknowledge!

By admin at 6 May, 2008, 1:06 pm

I grew up on old war movies, especially movies with fighter pilots, such as the Battle of Britain In fact up until the age of 13 I thought I was going to be a fighter pilot. I badly wanted to to be wearing a leather helmet and goggles, and saying things like “Roger Wilco, Over [...]