Archive for September, 2009

Style vs Substance

By brendan at 22 September, 2009, 5:43 pm

I was having coffee with a colleague of mine Steve this week. Steve works in international sales for a highly successful Australian air monitoring business called Ecotech. Over coffee we were drawing a parallel between pain and knowledge. Basically pain doesn’t seem to hurt as much when you get older because [...]

People in the Ecosystem

By brendan at 16 September, 2009, 11:22 am

In recent years I have met with vast numbers of people that didn’t even come close to living up to how they represented themselves. This has led to a desire for me (see how I’m avoiding angry words) to share some of my more bitter definitions of people in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. [...]

Networking Up

By brendan at 9 September, 2009, 1:46 pm

Yesterday I had a cuppa with a good friend of mine where she chatted about some issues at her workplace. She works for a not-for-profit with national reach and a couple of thousand employees. Although the discussion covered a variety of topics, an issue she mentioned was the all to common problem of [...]

Networking and Manners

By brendan at 9 September, 2009, 1:04 pm

Last week I met with a woman who facilitates cultural change within large enterprises. The discussion was around business development for sole practitioners, plus a small Joomla based website that we were deploying for her to manage some communications issues. She had realised that her client base was starting to thin out a little whilst [...]