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Archive | March, 2012
21 Questions on General Management Practices – Questionnaire
This instrument asks you about your organisation and people in order to provide a useful and pragmatic summary of management performance. By simply answering the questions you will better understand your organisation and where you may need to improve the general management skills. If you wish to receive a summarised report on your answers, this [...]
Implementing a Start-up Strategy: One of the topics at the 4-Day MBA Program
How do you implement a start-up? How do you launch a new product? How do you prepare a new, diverse service to your stable of professional offerings? What will have the most significant, positive impact in the way you go-to-market? This is a sample of one of the topics covered in Ric Willmot’s MBA [...]
Efficiency doesn’t equal effectiveness in professional firms
Efficiency doesn’t equal effectiveness. Effectiveness is sometimes the antithesis of efficiency. What will make you, your organisation, and your people effective is: Business development (takes time and doesn’t rate on the efficiency-scale when monitoring time sheets in 6-minute increments). Networking (there goes the time-sheets again). Quality client service and relationships (to deliver great service and [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.108: Negating the naysayers quickly
Negating the naysayers They are those annoying people who never do anything brilliant themselves, but find it their duty to condemn and criticise every idea you offer to make a difference. “That will never work.” “We tried that back in 1977. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now.” “We don’t have the time/money/resources [...]
Law Firm Benchmark Questionnaire on Marketing & Business Development
We are seeking the input from law firms to complete a questionnaire of 15 questions about marketing and business development that should take only 4-7 minutes to complete. At the end of the questionnaire, you can, if you so choose, provide your e-mail address and we will send you a complimentary copy of the summarised [...]
Friday Redux No.16: What are you talking about?
Politicians talk a lot. Actually, they talk too much and do too little. When they step in front of a microphone it gets even worse. They talk a lot more about nothing much really, with no genuine intent to back up what they promise. The manner in which they talk changes, also. They begin orating [...]
Friday Redux No.15: When I want your opinion, will you provide it?
Unsolicited feedback is given for the benefit of the sender not the receiver. Don’t concern yourself with those who come offering their criticisms, speculations and the like if you never asked them for it. I once had a woman thrust her business card into my face after I had given a conference keynote presentation telling [...]
What professional firms need to know about their people
People who work in professional services are different. They are knowledge workers. And, they’re unique! They are the means of production. They own it, because it is them. The office is their servant not their master. They don’t need to be in the office to do their work. Effectiveness is more important (to everyone) than [...]
You have to ask the right questions
In order to be an effective business leader, you need to become a better problem finder, not just a better problem solver. Organisational breakdowns and collapses tend to evolve over time, beginning with small errors that are compounded and eventually gained momentum. We need to become hunters who venture out in search of problems that [...]
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Kathy Westmore: Ric are you showing your softer side there by comp...
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Scott Brown: Yes, read that study. Interesting. Should also be ...
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Peter Abbott: Totally agree with you Ric. This government has d...
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Ric Willmot: Remember how boat arrivals under the last six year...
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Research Survey on Referrals in Professional Services
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It’s not too late to ditch the tax, Julia
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Catherine Deveny hate speech continues in spite of spelling
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Wayne Swan: It would be funny if it wasn’t so scary
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Why you must ban social media while working
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Psychologist, Peter Hart unable to adapt to pyjamas
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The financial facts provided by Treasury not politicians
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Strong men more likely to have right-wing views, study says
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The Nearly Free Workshop is Back!
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What’s around the bend for marketing your business, smarter?
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Summaries of fiscal & economic evaluations of Labor and Swan
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In the name of Australia, go, Wayne Swan, go!
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