by Bronwyn | Dec 9, 2022 | Australian Small Business, Business Ethics, Business Systems, Risk Management, Small Biz Tips
The underlying premise of my book, Small Company Big Crisis, is that business crises are a recurring and inevitable part of being in business. And yet, every time another business crisis faces us, we are surprised. We treat the good times as ‘normal’ and the bad times...
by Bronwyn | Nov 8, 2022 | Australian Small Business, Business Ethics, Small Biz Big Biz Relationships, Small Biz Tips
My businesses are based in regional Australia. Where I live, our agribusiness sector grows grain crops, citrus, grapes beef and a host of other produce. Our mining sector produces coal and sapphires, and we have gas projects underway. Solar energy plants produce...
by Bronwyn | Sep 19, 2022 | Australian Small Business, Blog, Media, Risk Management
There is no black magic and mystery to how you weather a crisis. It all comes down to preparation. It is so wonderful to have my insights on how to do this for small businesses recognised with a bronze Stevie International Business Award. I love the process of...
by Bronwyn | Aug 5, 2022 | Australian Small Business, Business Ethics, Case Studies, Risk Management, Small Biz Big Biz Relationships, Small Biz Tips
I typed that question into an internet search engine, and got 589,000,000 answers. From the suggestions on just the first two pages of results, I created this ‘word cloud’. Of course, it shows all the usual answers – leadership, marketing, systems… I believe that...
by Bronwyn | Aug 1, 2022 | Australian Small Business, Business Systems, Case Studies
In previous posts, I have written about finding the “one-percenters” in your organisation – the things you can tweak in your business systems to make continual, small improvements. Hopefully you have already started identifying some of these. I know that some readers...
by Bronwyn | Jun 3, 2022 | Australian Small Business, Blog, Business Ethics, News, Small Biz Big Biz Relationships
In the lead-up to the 2022 Federal Election, there were, as always, many vox pop interviews along the lines of, “How will you be voting?” As always, there were are number of “I don’t know, I don’t take any interest in politics” type answers. That attitude may be okay...