With economies everywhere under challenge, businesses of all kinds are also under challenge to refine and improve what they do and how they do it. Professional coaching businesses are no exception. In fact, there is a good chance that some coaching practices will be suffering a “knock on” effect and seeing their business flow slowing,…
Having read some notices by various highly credentialed people about a new book to be launched on July 7, Think Like Chinese, by HANG Haihua and Geoff Baker, I know this is a book I must have and preferably before I go on my next trip to China in mid July. I’m especially interested in…
Bill Vick, my colleague and co-author of LinkedIn for Recruiting and Big Biller is, as his many colleagues in the recruiting industry know, a true early adopter and avid user of technology. So it was no surprise to me when he let me know about his new videoblogging site XtremeRecruiting.tv – “interviews about the collision…
My friend and colleague, Professor Lonnie B. Hodge, has written the first in a series on doing business in China (Update 2011: the link I had here does not seem to work anymore). He is less than complimentary about the books and other guides out there already: We have bookshelves stacked full of expensive kindling…
On Saturday I’m running a workshop for franchisees in the Computer Solutions Sales and Service group, here in Tweed Heads. As I’ve mentioned in a post at Thinking Home Business, the group has grown quickly, from a local business here a couple of years ago to fourteen businesses, most in Australia with one in New…
This month of September has been designated Small Business Month by the New South Wales state government and there is a statewide program of events that goes with the designation. Some of those events happen up here in the Northern Rivers district and next Wednesday, September 27, I’ll be doing a presentation at one of…