George Bush consecration of the Flight 93 – 9/11 Memorial in Shanksville PA. This is a superb speech. Beautifully written; delivered with grace and the dignity deserved.
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Labor Party policy hurting Australian business
Bosses blame Gillard Government for increasing strike actionAustralian Bureau of Statistics
STRIKE action tripled across Australia in the three months to June as unions exploited the Gillard Government’s industrial relations policy, employers say. There were 496,500 working hours lost due to strikes in the three months, Australian Bureau of Statistics show.That was equal to 66,200 days, compared with 19,700 days in the first three months of [...]
Take a purposeful pause and improve your business
Last week I wrote in my Friday Redux that we need to Allow Time to Notice. On the weekend at a friend’s barbeque afternoon, I was asked how I was able to continually generate ideas, thoughts, solutions and if it is hard to do. One person even commented that I must spend an inordinate amount [...]
Australian Labor Party pays Craig Thomson’s legal bills
NSW Labor paid more than $90,000 of MP Craig Thomson’s legal bills and gave him a loan because he would have brought down the Gillard government if he went bankrupt. A senior Labor source said: “We paid because if he hadn’t he’d be bankrupt (which would render him ineligible to remain in parliament).” The Daily [...]
Elvis needed no surname or introduction. What about you?
34 years ago today, Elvis died. Elvis never needed a surname, or an introduction, everybody knew who he was. What are you doing to develop your own brand recognition, marketing, and public relations so that everyone within your target market knows who you are? Do you still need an introduction to your target market or are [...]
Is your business thinking dead or alive?
There was a curious plague which beset a primitive village centuries ago. When afflicted, the victims fell into a coma so deep that they were mistaken for being dead. And, within 24-48 hours they did in fact ultimately die. The issue was that these primitive villagers were unable to positively determine if a victim was actually [...]
Business opportunities are knocking
A leading business university undertook research into their graduates. It was discovered that their past students were successful during the early part of their careers after graduating, but ten years on, they were superseded by a more street-wise, pragmatic group. The professor who undertook this research explained that the education the graduates had received was [...]
Is your thinking in the dogma house?
Greek philosopher and mathematician, Plato, dictated that the circle was the perfect form for celestial movement. So, then for the next one-and-a-half millennia, astronomers said that the planetary orbits were circular even though their observational data suggested otherwise. Even Copernicus utilised circles in his heliocentric model, explaining the universe and its relationship to the planets. [...]
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