Huge amounts of money are lost as a result of dipping productivity, a study shows, but in Australia it’s more about the quality than the quantity of work. Each year a staggering $109 billion l wages is wasted as a result of falling productivity. That means nearly one -sixth of the nation’s $606 billion [...]
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CEOs Need a New Set of Beliefs
October 23rd, 2011 
emanuelperdis In the past 25 years, CEOs of many major corporations have relied on a flawed set of beliefs to lead their organizations. This set has influenced them to place way too much emphasis on maximizing shareholder value and not enough on generating value for society. Today we are mired in the Great Recession, which was [...]
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Tags: capitalism, ceo, leadership, paradigm, shareholder, value 
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4 Alternatives to PowerPoint for Your Next Presentation
October 15th, 2011 emanuelperdis Four Alternatives to PowerPoint for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint, Microsoft’s presentation tool, was once ubiquitous as the business standard for organizing, distilling and demonstrating business ideas. Now, PowerPoint has far more competition. The Web has sparked a brisk market in alternatives for presenting your next big idea. And we spent about a month distilling the [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, Consulting, Speaking, Your Business, Your Career Tags: boardroom, communicating, pitch, pitching, Presentation, presenting, selling 2 Comments »
Lead by being Transparent and Authentic
October 7th, 2011 emanuelperdis Mistrust in the workplace is on the rise and likely to increase unless employers become more transparent. Employees believe less and less in their employers these days. Since the global financial crisis – during which employees saw that even their employers didn’t necessarily know what they were doing as financial institutions crashed around them – [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, featured, Speaking, Your Business, Your Career Tags: accountability, accountable, authenticity, communication, distrust, leadership, leading, management, managing, responsibility, transparency, trust No Comments »Sticking it out as a Start-up
July 4th, 2011 emanuelperdis The biggest threats to many new businesses don’t come during the early start up phase but in surviving the first 5 critical years. Entrepreneurs proverbially know all too well that staying power and patience are required to get through the tough times. But for many, the biggest challenges don’t always come at the start. Businesses [...]
How to Handle Manipulators
July 2nd, 2011 emanuelperdis Even though you may view yourself as a confident person running a company that employs hunreds of people, you can still have cases of toxic manipulative behaviours amongst your ranks that adversely affect your teams’ morale. Manipulation is commonplace in work environments, especially amongst the higher ranks where Machiavellian control and power strategies prevail. The [...]
Posted in Consulting, featured, Speaking, Your Business, Your Career Tags: boss, colleagues, company culture, conflict management, employer, workplace 1 Comment »Married to an Entrepreneur? Oh boy…
June 30th, 2011 emanuelperdis Maintaining a healthy relationship with a business owner is tough. Being an entrepreneur is time-consuming, energy-draining, and often thankless—and that’s when things are going well. However tough as it is to be an entrepreneur, being an entrepreneur’s spouse has its own challenges. Spouses face difficulties that are often isolating because details cannot be shared with [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, Speaking, Your Business, Your Life Tags: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, marriage, married, relationship, small business, work-life balance No Comments »
Coaching Performance Anxiety
June 19th, 2011 emanuelperdis Many performance anxious individuals are very concerned about what “others” (i.e., the audience) think of them. Some of them try to perform to please “others”, assuming the audience will think the same of the performer as the performer thinks of himself. Typically, such performers feel lacking in some way and assume the audience will judge [...]
