Increasing energy prices good for some companies?
How can BHP expand production at Olympic Dam without a new source of power? Can Australia really increase production volumes in its minerals and metals…
Continue reading →Startups and Business
Startups are the heart and soul of any economy and society. They generate ideas, products and jobs far in excess of any other vehicle or mechanism.
Alfred Chandler – GONE
Alfred Chandler, the man who almost singlehandedly invented the field of study in Business Management, has passed away. In the past few months, we have…
Continue reading →School Ties
Driving through the leafy suburban streets of Balwyn a few weeks ago, I was struck by the number of real estate boards outside homes which…
Continue reading →No bread for (red)
Have I mentioned this before? They’ve tried to diffuse it with this. Lame rebuttal. (red) is like many other major charities – a rort, a…
Continue reading →Conservatory Hotel – Sydney: Do not stay there
It’s patently clear. Do not stay at the Observatory Hotel in Sydney unless you want news of your most intimate moments splashed all over the…
Continue reading →Westpac have created the worst bank ad of all time
There’s an ad on TV (or at least it was on TV) which is absolutely infuriating and appaling. It shows emotive footage of pollution, small…
Continue reading →“Another Budget Airline?”
There is talk low cost carrier Tiger Air, a joint venture between Singapore Airlines and Ryanair, will be coming to Australia soon. The Age has…
Continue reading →Eat Your Greens – The truth behind “fair trade” and “ethically sourced” goods.
Although I’m only about two months late in reporting it, The Economist has done it again with a wonderful piece on buying “Fairtrade”, “ethically sourced”…
Continue reading →U2’s business practices
For many, many years we have admired U2’s business practices. This band has succeeded in not only writing and recording multi-million selling albums and lucrative…
Continue reading →“Participation is the new consumption” – from Trendwatching.com
participation is the new consumption I LOVE IT. Consumption has consumed itself. Nothing is original. Affluence has become affluenza. The only thing which is original…
Continue reading →EMI = Every Mistake Imaginable
The past few weeks have been somewhat tumultuous in the music industry, with the departure of two of the music industry’s best regarded executives, David…
Continue reading →Cop That!
It’s amazing. The soaring price of copper has led to organised theft of copper wire and materials from instrastructure such as tram lines and electricity…
Continue reading →VALE MILTON FRIEDMAN
One of the greatest thinkers, revolutionaries, philosophers, leaders and liberal evangelists this world has known, Milton Friedman, has died at the age of 94. The…
Continue reading →The ATO is planning on taxing gold farmers?!
Virtual world: tax man cometh – BizTech – Technology – theage.com.au The Australian Tax Office is with it… In another sign that the virtual worlds…
Continue reading →The Gold Rush – Virtual goods and virtual wealth
There are huge changes in the relationship between the online and real worlds (the real world being referred to in cyberspace and in this piece…
Continue reading →Why Globalisation Works – Martin Wolf
In “Why Globalisation Works”, Martin Wolf, an editor of The Financial Times, has written a magnificent book which works to dissect globalisation, explaining the benefits…
Continue reading →A Bright Future Fund
Peter Costello – take a bow! In securing Melbourne as the headquarters of the Future Fund, the $140 Billion Investment Fund to be set up…
Continue reading →Introducing Microcredit
It is the International Year of Microcredit? Microcredit is such a cool concept. A means to empower those who are poor and unable to assist…
Continue reading →Water into a leaky bucket = An empty bucket
A very interesting article in the English Version of DER SPIEGEL, the respected German Newspaper. It is with Kenyan Economist James Shikwati, who PLEADS with…
Continue reading →Rupert’s Heart
A great little article which discusses the tradition and family that is News Corp in the context of the last AGM to be held in…
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