by Bronwyn | Feb 28, 2023 | Australian Small Business, Business Ethics, Business Systems, Small Biz Tips
Starting a business can be an exciting and optimistic journey, filled with hope and the promise of freedom. However, as the business grows and expands, the challenges start to emerge, and the reality of managing a team and juggling multiple roles sets in. You seem to...
by Bronwyn | Jan 30, 2023 | Australian Small Business, Business Ethics, Small Biz Big Biz Relationships, Small Biz Tips
Everywhere you look at the moment you will see announcements and declarations by companies – large, small, and everywhere in between – that they intend to become carbon neutral. They are committing to net-zero emissions by some future date. Their promise is to take...
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 27, 2022 | Business Ethics, Business Systems, Small Biz Big Biz Relationships, Small Biz Tips
Every small-business book you read, or workshop you attend, will tell you that you must have good business systems. At that point, there is usually an audible groan. So, what are these magical ‘systems’ that seem to cause such angst? And why do you need them? Rather...
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...
