Finding the First 5000

Australia’s top performing SMEs can lead the way, we must communicate with them.

Driving to work last week I was listening to ABC Radio coverage of the latest Dun & Bradstreet business report which indicated that 1 in 4 businesses expect to dismiss staff in the near future. This is the worst prognosis on employment since the survey started 21 years ago, and worse is yet to come.

I have headed up TCG for nearly 40 years. In that time we have seen 5 major recessions and survived them all without a single bankruptcy. The TCG Group employs thousands of people in dozens of companies across diverse industries. Today, we are still growing and retain a positive outlook for our future.

How to Snare a Taxi

Travelling can pleasantly surprise you by revealing the kindness of human nature.

Show me the Money!

Government needs to worry less about a lack of innovation and think more about its own role in supporting business which are innovating.

Last month I attended a gathering to mark the release of "Inside the Innovation Matrix", the latest publication from the Australian Business Foundation. The Hon. Craig Emerson MP had been invited to say a few words to launch the book.

He was armed with the full vocabulary of innovation speak to throw at us: vision, daring, connectivity, clustering, inter-disciplinary communities, innovation…the list goes on.

Over the last 30yrs I’ve participated in various initiatives concerned with promoting innovation, and what I heard felt strikingly similar to what I’ve heard before. It was a little like hearing an echo of Ministers past.  

The ‘Second Track’ Process: a Civil Solution

We need to move away from the myth that government is always the appropriate agency for resolving people's problems and that the individuals have no responsibility for society outside their own lives.

An Image Makeover for Regulation

To foster better regulation the first thing we need to do is to change our attitude.

Measuring Success

If someone takes the time to find your number and approach you with an idea or proposal, the very least you can to is return their call.

Contemporary democracy and the shift in power from bureaucracy to business and individuals

A World Economic Forum report predicts multinational corporations and individuals will exercise more power than governments by 2030…

Thoughts on innovation: What are the incentives for risk-taking?

There is often confusion over the terms "creative thinking" and "innovation". Many view them as one and the same, but in reality they are very different. One means ideas, the other means action.