Never have we needed to understand the OODA loop more!
Observe, Orient, Decide, Act: The OODA loop for competitive advantage, or in current times, survival.
How to insulate your business from the inevitable recession
The inevitability of a bad deterioration in the economy is now absolute. No more fluffing around with nice, reassuring words, the consequences of this Corona pandemic will be an economic and social clusterf**k. So, in these circumstances, how do you insulate...
The silver in the corona cloud
As we hesitantly, with stumbles, come out of this lockdown, we will see the landscape has changed. For some, it will be a land of opportunity, for others, a wasteland. Rather than seeing it as a calamity, those who choose to see it as an opportunity, will be able to...
Five essentials for SME’s to survive the Corona chaos.
It is too easy for those not at the front lines of a crisis to brush aside the practical difficulties of day to day survival, in favour of the fluffier, albeit no less important longer term questions and issues. Currently there is a flurry of activity from political...
A Corona, heavily disguised as a Black Swan
There is a quote by Earnest Hemingway, when asked how he went bankrupt. His response was: 'Gradually, then suddenly'. The same thing is happening to us now, as the Corona bug cuts a swathe through economies worldwide. For the last 25 years we have become...
Cash flow assistance for SME’s
Halleluiah The Government has announced cash flow assistance for small businesses, turnover limit an arbitrary $50 million, impacted by the Corona virus. Perhaps the precarious position many small businesses are finding themselves in has finally pricked the...
The only commercial vaccine for COVID-19. Cash.
When things suddenly get really tough, as we are now seeing, the priority is survival. That simple word means many different things to different people, but the common denominator is that you need cash to do it. If your processes do not include short term rolling cash...
The critical key to reliable forecasting: Be less wrong.
The only thing we know for sure about forecasts is that they will be wrong. The critical factor is by how much.
Has ‘The Bug’ created an organisational crossroad?
My eldest son has been talking to his employer for some time about remote working. He and his family wanted to get out of Sydney, with its attendant challenges, and have a simpler lifestyle. Problem has been, the simpler lifestyle also limits the job...
Canberra bubbles bumble on
#Scottyfrommarketing blew it again on Tuesday morning, (March 10) further demonstrating why he had to move out of marketing, where you need a modicum of common sense, into politics, where common sense appears to be a liability. He was speaking at the...