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All I want for Christmas is….
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Read more: All I want for Christmas is….When I meet with a family business for the first time, I’ll often ask what do they want to achieve from working with me and they all have the same answer… I want to be able to have Christmas lunch with my family As a family business advisor I spend…
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What leaders can learn from children’s sports
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Read more: What leaders can learn from children’s sportsRecently I spent a week with my son and his team mates at the national karate championships. It has always intrigued me how much we can learn from sport, as leaders. Sport really seems to have nailed working as a team. Karate is ordinarily considered an individual sport. Ultimately, you…
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What do Labor’s proposed tax policies mean for family businesses?
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Read more: What do Labor’s proposed tax policies mean for family businesses?With the Federal election around the corner, it is important for the owners of family businesses to consider, what do the proposed changes mean for our business and our family wealth? Discretionary Trusts Labor’s proposal is for all trust distributions to be taxed at a minimum tax rate of 30%.…
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Leading from the Front
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Read more: Leading from the Front‘Courage is a leadership quality, it involves clarity of vision and preparedness to tough it out. It is backed up by careful research and meticulous planning.” Gail Kelly recently commented in her book. Live Lead Learn – My stories of life and leadership. Leadership does not mean you have all of…
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Keeping It in the Family podcasts
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Read more: Keeping It in the Family podcastsKeeping It in the Family Podcast Series Podcast 3: Discussing what is family business. Please click here for more. Podcast 2 Sharing our learnings from overseas in relation to how they are seeing diversity in Family Business and the change once businesses hit 3rd and 4th generation. Podcast 1 Discussing…
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Introducing our “Keeping it in the Family” podcast series
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Read more: Introducing our “Keeping it in the Family” podcast seriesOur podcast series is true to its name, we have kept it in the Family. An interview series between my daughter Angelina Martin and myself. We will be exploring the different challenges experienced by family business and the different solutions available. We will also introduce you t different family businesses.…
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Is your family working as a team?
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Read more: Is your family working as a team?“None of us is as smart as all of us.” Ken Blanchard “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” Michael Jordan “Coming together is beginning. Keeping together is a process. Working together is success.” Henry Ford Although the above quotes come from different fields, the concept of the…
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Stimulating growth for family business
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Read more: Stimulating growth for family businessIt was great for family businesses that the Government remained committed to their Business company tax cuts but was this enough? Unfortunately, the tax cuts only impact small businesses with a turnover of less than $10m who operate through an Australian company structure. Wth no movement in the personal tax…
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