3 keys to no bullshit plans
By brendan at 7 December, 2009, 2:17 pm
Pretty much on a weekly basis I get sent ideas, business plans and/or Information Memorandums for capital raising. Everyone who sends me one, tends to think its an expertly crafted, zero risk proposal to achieve a massive return with a world changing idea. I don’t. So when a couple of weeks ago, Justin [...]
Read More >>What happens after failure….
By brendan at 27 October, 2009, 11:11 am
This is a video of a speech I did in June this year on corporate failure at AIMIA. Rather than talk about climbing back up, or just hanging on the cliff, I decided to talk about what happens when you actually fall off and your business fails. It was probably a bit too candid. Its [...]
Read More >>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 [...]
Read More >>Geographically Embarrassed Businesses
By brendan at 12 August, 2009, 6:01 pm
Geographically Embarrassed. Its a euphemism for being lost. Whenever you go wandering about in the bush on an Army exercise, individuals or groups are sure to get lost. In my my experience, the first assumption made when you realise you are lost is that the map was wrong. Unfortunately it [...]
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