In “the recession Australia had to have”, as our then Treasurer Paul Keating stated in 1990, I was a cofounder of a small, emerging manufacturing business in Sydney, NSW. We started the business in mid-1988, went through the usual start-up growing pains, won a place on a NSW government tender, and things were tight, but… Read more »
Christine Holgate has been called many things in her career, a trailblazer, turnaround queen, even troublemaker. But if you ask her, the most important label she’s carried is survivor. From building Blackmores into a global powerhouse, to shaking up Australia Post, to now leading the transformation of Team Global Express, Holgate has lived the rollercoaster… Read more »
A few tiny tweaks to the words you use can have huge impacts on your mindset and your results – here are four changes you can make today. Words are powerful. And small changes to the words we think and say can have huge impacts on our mindset. ‘Our greatest freedom is the freedom to… Read more »
Let’s cut through the noise. Entrepreneurs love the grind. They wear struggle like a badge of honour – how many hours they’ve worked, how many startups they’ve launched, how many failures they’ve endured. They call it resilience. Businesspeople call it wasted effort. Because here’s the truth no one wants to hear: The world doesn’t pay… Read more »
As commencement speeches go, tennis great Roger Federer had a straight sets victory at Dartmouth College on the weekend. The 20-time Grand Slam champion confessed it was just the second time he’d visited a university campus and one of the reasons why he was there was because his longtime agent and business partner Tony Godsick’s… Read more »
The skills needed to thrive in an uncertain future are often thought to fall under the term “entrepreneurial mindset” but New Zealand researcher Darsel Keane has found that there’s little clarity about what an entrepreneurial mindset actually is. While the phrase is cited with increasing popularity in recent years, Keane, director of the Centre for… Read more »
If you’re getting your business off the ground, a big part of your mental energy is likely going towards logistics. It’s all about the what, the how and the when: how can I get my product or service (what) in front of as many people as possible (how), as quickly as I can (when), so… Read more »
The Australian Open captures the hearts and minds of Australians for the last two weeks of January each year. This year was no different, especially with the dream run of the world’s number one tennis player, Ash Barty, as she cruised into the finals of the grand slam. Despite being down in the second… Read more »
Propel looks to enable participants to learn from Silicon Valley’s mindset and culture, and provide them with direct access to US venture capitalists.
“We designed Mindset because we hate the idea that people everywhere, ourselves included, have a distinct gap between how we are, and how we wish we were.”
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