Now here’s a thought…

Yesterday I went to my graduation ceremony for my Certificate III in Micro Business Operations – the course I did from April to June thanks to the Australian Government who paid for it – and met up with students from the last several courses. I met up with...

How is your bottom drawer?

Is it full of shoe-boxes containing bundles of receipts that you ought to sort out for your accountant? Do you know where to start? Do you start at the bottom and work upwards, or the other way around? Here is my small business administration tip for today… Sort...

Days of Future Passed…

How far has technology come? In my first office job as PA to the manager of a large French bank in Hong Kong, way back in 1976, international communications were via something called a telex – about the size of a small piano (see picture below) – where you had to make...

The good thing about winter…part two

I went to two different networking events today… one was more of an introduction; looking at starting up a new chapter of BNI – Business Networking International – a very structured organisation, and possibly a high pressure system (sounds like a...

The good thing about winter…part one

What’s good about the cold weather? Well, for one thing there are less distractions…this is the time to Get Sorted. Instead of going to the beach, or sitting outside in a shady spot and reading the weekend papers, we can stay warm and dry inside and do all...