Category Archives: Finances

Cutting diamonds

Posted on October 8, 2013 by admin
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  In The Diamond Cutter, Michael Roche proposes a simple and very powerful way of dealing with your shortcomings or challenges: find someone with a similar challenge and help them with it, that is, with no immediate thought for your ….»

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Purpose, Social enterprise, Success, Vocation, Wellness

Business models

Posted on August 8, 2013 by admin
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  Business models! There are a hundred ways to skin a cat. I see businesses of certain kinds, like retailers, folding everywhere. It’s not just bookshops any more, it’s pretty much everyone, any high-street-model-reseller. Once 3D printers come of age, ….»

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Finances, Innovation, Management, Small business, Transformation, Uncategorized

What you measure is what you get

Posted on June 8, 2013 by admin
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  Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. – Milton Friedman I ….»

Posted in Business, Edgeware, Enterprise, Ethics, Finances, Perception, Purpose, Small business, Success

Cash flow

Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin
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 If I’m a business educator and I’m trying to convince you that an MBA is worth two years of your life and AUD60,000, it’s in my interest for you to understand business as complex, difficult and arcane, isn’t it? The ….»

Posted in Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Management, Personality, Skills, Small business, Success, Training

What do accountants count?

Posted on December 24, 2011 by admin
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    We think we make rational economic decisions. We don’t. Our decisions are driven by intangible values of which we may not be aware, or about which we may not care. ‘Radical accountant’ Baruch Lev, along with others, is ….»

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finances, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Small business, Social enterprise, Success, Teams

After a certain point, money is
meaningless

Posted on December 17, 2011 by admin
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  Just for fun, here are some thoughts from much better heads than ours … A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. Henry Ford After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to ….»

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Personality, Small business, Social enterprise, Vocation, Weirdness, Wisdom

Business Ethics

Posted on July 12, 2009 by admin
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Business ethics is an important field for Edgeware because it’s in the ‘change the world’ bit of our DNA. You don’t ‘adopt’ ethical practices; you can’t operate without ethics, even if you couldn’t name them and you don’t have a ….»

Posted in Business, Customers, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finances, Leadership, Life, Management, Marketing, Purpose, Small business, Social enterprise, Success, Vocation, Wisdom

The Value Proposition

Posted on September 18, 2008 by admin
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 “… The fundamental mission of a business (is) not profit, but value creation. It sees profit as a vital consequence of value creation – a means rather than an end, a result as opposed to a purpose.” Frederick F. Reichheld, ….»

Posted in Business, Communication, Customers, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Marketing, Small business, Success