Is your business cool enough?
Forget the airconditioning, keeping staff cool, calm and collected these days requires ice creams and swimming pool passes.
No winning battle of the blowhards
Blowing your own trumpet is an idiom for idiots.
Big win for small business on effects test
Cabinet's approval of an effects test is set to transform competition law for small business.
Cash-only is the new black for more businesses
It's gone way beyond tradies, restaurants and service enterprises that offer generous "discounts" for cash payment.
Baby-proofing your business
Who's left holding the baby when you're a small business owner?
The risk of not having an effects test
An open letter to the Prime Minister and the Treasurer from Peter Strong, chief executive of the Council of Small Business of Australia.
What paid parental leave?
Small business owners are getting their claims rejected under the government's paid parental leave scheme.
Why you might hate your job
It's ego deflating to do something that's not actually your job.
Your three second window
Three seconds is all it takes for someone to make a decision when they meet you and that moment is crucial when you're running a business.
Watch out for fudged resumes
Students and street-wise job seekers will always find ways to cheat the job-application system.
The perils of social media
Our private use of social media could be one of the pitfalls of the modern workplace.
Why this hairdresser can't get trained staff
Small business owners complain of poor quality training and training centres are not providing the staff they need.
Beware: infectious colleagues
How your colleagues think, feel and act can be just as contagious as the common cold.
Running a business on the side
Work and personal time has never been so blurred, but entrepreneurship is all or nothing.
What keeps you up at night?
It's hard to get a good night's sleep when you run a small business.
The death of the video store
What happens when your industry is in terminal decline.
Baby proofing your business
Who's left holding the baby when you're a small business owner?
Do bad guys really get ahead?
Spot the narcissists, psychopaths and Machiavellians in your workplace.
Small business horror stories
Meet the small business owners who didn't let the worst day of their business lives spell the end.
Six ways to resurrect the conference
Six ways to make industry events more engaging and productive.
Corporate Australia wants you to know it is 'agile'
"The Australia of the future has to be a nation that is agile," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said a few weeks ago. He is absolutely right.
Exploited motel manager awarded $27,500 compensation
Fair Work Commission finds motel manager was unfairly dismissed and subjected to "exploitative" conditions.
Podcasts for entrepreneurs
If you're a parent who runs their own business, a business owner who loves a beer or looking for tips on building an online audience, there's a podcast for you.
The age of entitlement … at work
How to deal with employees who have an unrealistic sense of entitlement.
When documents get lost for too many words
Six tips to avoid the soul-destroying process of documents going round and round an organisation for review.
Small businesses scammed out of $2.2 million
The competition watchdog has received almost 5,000 complaints from small businesses with concerns about misleading conduct the biggest issue.
Small business perks up
The index of small business conditions has risen to 44 from 43 the previous quarter, bringing the index above its five-year average.
Queues out the door
It's a problem many business owners would love to have, but at Lune Croissanterie in Fitzroy and Jack's Burgers in Newtown the wait time is both a lure and a deterrent.
Deconstructing the IT professional
It must be frustrating to deal with technophobes every day and be surrounded by software that resembles a Commodore 64.
Stop monkeying around with Chinese business
The Lunar New Year was an example of not enough retailers embracing other countries' traditions.
Editors picks
Meet the super influencers
They're the new darlings of the marketing world and businesses are clamouring to get them on board.
Chin chin to the gin renaissance
Small Australian distillers are tapping in to a global boom in gin.
Why everyone is reading indie mags
Small independent magazine publishers are not just surviving but thriving.
How to create a cult business
Why having a cult business is the holy grail of business.
