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We congratulate former colleague and friend of the firm, Sarah Davies, on her new appointment as CEO of National Youth Organisation Reach, co-founded by football legend Jim Stynes...

Posted by #Kevin: Company leaders will not be stepping into 2012 with the same basis of hope they took into 2011. A year ago, the widespread observation was that things could only get better ..."we've put the worst of the global financial shock waves behind us so it's time for a return to new, sustainable growth". Today, we know that for most companies this has not been the case...

Posted by #Kevin: The late Kerry Packer was the man reported to have uttered television's great axiom: "You don't go broke underestimating public taste" Even he would have been a little surprised to see that the latest offering of so-called 'celebrities' in another last-one-standing series topped the ratings this week....this time appropriately called celebrity 'Apprentices'...

Posted by #Kevin: There have more articles about Steve Jobs in the weeks since his death than in the months, if not years, of his Apple career. Most of them have included 'interesting' insights about the man, as a creator, manager and a complex person...

Posted by #Alastair: You have probably heard all the noise around the importance of building 'engagement'. In fact, regardless of who you have spoken and what you have read, this strange word has probably been difficult to avoid...

Australia’s wealth is much more evenly distributed than other countries, a new report reveals, but start-ups are still being urged to choose their target markets carefully...

Posted by #Erik: Salesforce.com is becoming a global power brand, much more then just a software package. Not many people in the street will have heard of Marc Benioff, but his values and sense of purpose is driving a large part of that recognition...

Posted by #Kylie: Imagine this: For weeks you’ve been planning a big party. A theme has been chosen, the guest list created, invitations sent and accepted, decorations adorn the room. On the big night, people start to fill the house, but the host has gone missing along with the music, food and fun. It then turns out that the guests actually don’t know each other that well and quickly the buzz of excitement turns to fizz and they start leaving early because no-one knows what to do or say....

Posted by #Kevin: Most of the discussion about the launch of Masters into the Australian market has centred around the head to head battle with Bunnings. Notwithstanding the Lowes US partnership, the market is excited about yet another Wesfarmerrs vs. Woolworths shoot out...

Posted by #Kevin: The problem with self-evident truths is that they can bring on a "so what?", when they should pull into sharper focus the reality of that truth...