ASIC’s continuing help for employees
ASIC reported in December 2014 that it had recently exercised its wind up powers to appoint liquidators to nine abandoned companies to assist former employees of these companies, owed in excess of $310,000, to gain access to the Fair Entitlements Guarantee (“FEG”) scheme. In the whole of 2014, ASIC used its new powers obtained in…
The multitasking myth
Want greater productivity and enjoyment while you work? Then stop multitasking, especially if you think you are good at it. While multitasking has been lauded in the workplace and in our personal lives, research continually finds it to be counter-productive. Human multitasking is the apparent handling by an individual of more than one task at…
Procrastination – the art of keeping up with yesterday
Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the “last minute”. According to psychologist Professor Clarry Lay, a prominent writer on procrastination, procrastination occurs…
Failure? What failure?
Failure is everywhere but most of the time we prefer to ignore that fact and focus on success. In a business park in Ann Arbor, Michigan is the Museum of Failed Products. It looks like a haphazardly organised supermarket, with no shoppers, and shelves crammed with tens of thousands of packages of food and household…
‘Topical’ advertising: fun and free
Struggling for inspiration? Looking for a unique way to connect to customers? Consider topical advertising. It doesn’t require money. It just requires wit. This age-old, and common, practice is where the canny advertiser gains recognition through piggy backing off a popular event or day of the year. It is a form of media promotion designed…