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Introduction

The month of May typically heralds a federal budget. What’s in store for businesses this year as COVID persistently and irritatingly continues to affect us with ongoing lockdowns and restrictions?
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Economic update - Subscribe

Economic update

Running Time: 7:39

The federal budget is around the corner, our debt blowout is mind-boggling, the vaccine roll-out is stumbling and interest rates remain stubbornly low. What does it all mean for us as we steer our businesses through 2021 and beyond?
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Prof. Neville Norman, Melbourne University

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How’s your succession plan going? - Subscribe

How’s your succession plan going?

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If you’re considering retiring in the next few years, do you intend to pass your practice on to the next generation? If so, now’s the time to start the process, advises Greg Griffith, CEO of Family Business Australia.
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Greg Griffith, Family Business Australia

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Easing the pain of post-JobKeeper layoffs - Subscribe

Easing the pain of post-JobKeeper layoffs

Running Time: 9:00

Many small businesses have managed to stay afloat thanks to the government’s JobKeeper program. But as JobKeeper is withdrawn, serious cost-cutting may be needed to keep the doors open, and that might include the grim task of laying off staff.
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Athena Koelmeyer, Workplace Law

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Are you breadcrumbing staff? - Subscribe

Are you breadcrumbing staff?

Running Time: 9:56

Promising your employees bonuses or promotions, but never following through, is known as “breadcrumbing”.
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Karen Gately, Corporate Dojo

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Divorce: when personal and business life collides - Subscribe

Divorce: when personal and business life collides

Running Time: 8:45

Divorce is stressful enough but add the extra element of a family business to the mix and the complications can be hugely magnified – especially when an amicable arrangement can’t be reached by the warring couple.
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Kim Hanrick, Mazars

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Investing in today’s stock market - Subscribe

Investing in today’s stock market

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How are you supposed to make money from your savings in this low interest rate environment? That’s a question many investors have been asking themselves when they look at the measly returns they get from term deposits or money in the bank.
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Greg Keady, APW Partners

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Don’t pigeonhole your customers - Subscribe

Don’t pigeonhole your customers

Running Time: 10:57

The labels marketers use to describe consumers are no longer fit for purpose. So says consumer engagement expert Michael Solomon, whose new book, ‘The New Chameleons’, outlines how consumers defy the categories in which businesses like to place them.
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Michael Solomon

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Closing comments / quote of the month - Subscribe

Closing comments / quote of the month

Our quote of the month is from renowned US author Jim Collins, who wrote “Good to Great: why some companies make the leap – and others don’t”. Jim famously said...
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