With 2020 just around the corner, advancements in technology and how they relate to our businesses are a hot topic and one that can leave you wondering how in the world your company is every going to survive without a robot sitting at your reception desk.

There is one part to the story that will never change in a world that feels like it is spinning faster and faster.

If your business requires you to go to work every day and cannot survive if you step away from it for a week or so, what you have is not a business, it is just like Chris’s – a job. And it may even be a job that pays you less than someone else would pay you to do the same job in your area of expertise. You may even have staff working for you, it doesn’t mean you have scaled successfully.

When you have hit a financial ceiling, which is a tell-tale sign that as an entrepreneur you have now wandered into the Wilderness, just getting more ‘dollars’ is not the solution to your problem.

See the thing is, when you are trading time for money and going after a bigger bank balance to showcase how good you are at ‘growing a business’…

Growing up on a farm in NSW, the subject of conversation around the dinner table was more often than not about the weather. Was it going to rain, was it not going to rain. Droughts are a common thing in Australian agricultural industry and my heart goes out to all those affected severely by the drought this year….

The Government has resurrected the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) amnesty giving employers that have fallen behind with their SG obligations the ability to “self-correct.” This time however, the incentive of the amnesty is strengthened by harsh penalties for those that fail to take action.

In a world where disruption has been worn like a badge of honour on the chests of entrepreneurs and start-up founders, it is little wonder that business owners have become a disorientated with concepts of organisational structure, and company procedures. I get it - it all seems a little boring and dull in the light of words like ‘agility’ ‘accelerator’ ‘boot-strapping’ and ‘growth hacking’….