In a talk I delivered to the Western Suburbs Business Association last week, I struck a cautiously optimistic tone in regards to the prospects for business in WA in 2017. Most of those attending seemed to agree that things had been picking up of late, and perhaps in 2017 we would all just get on with...Read More
There are 2 really bad ways to start a speech, and most of the time when I hear someone speak in public, one or other of them is used. The most common way, and one that I have fallen into the trap of doing myself a few times, is to throw up a slide with the...Read More
5 years ago I made it a new year’s resolution to start a blog. I’d been telling many of my clients they should blog and thought I should practice what I preach. I’d guest blogged (posted on someone else’s blog) but not run my own. I owned charliegunningham.com (and a few other) domain names and were not...Read More
As the seasonal period of goodwill recedes, and people trudge back to work (only to grab another week off before the end of January while the kids are still on holidays), some of us are prone to ponder the state of the world, and how 2017 might run its course. This time last year I...Read More
The first time I came to Perth, WA, was exactly 25 years ago, as a busker. Christmas 1991. We had a brilliant 10 days, and – incredibly – each made enough to cover our return airfares. At the time, I was living and working in Singapore, where busking was prohibited. Something about it being against the...Read More
As a former teacher said to me once – There are those who do, and those who watch. I remember when social media burst upon the scene, well, not so much burst, as crept into our lives, only to now (almost) take over, there were those who scorned the Twitter, the LinkedIN, the Facebook and...Read More
When we set up our tech startup back in 1999, we looked to angel investment to get our business off the ground. Some new business ideas just need to be tried in the marketplace in order to see if they will work, and they cannot be launched without some financial support. Often the idea is...Read More
For those you left numb and disbelieving over the recent election of a President Trump, consider that Hillary Clinton won the 2nd most number of votes ever in a Presidential election and 2 million more than her opponent. Of course that did not get her elected, due to the quirks of the electoral college system. It’s...Read More
I’ve been watching this crazy, relentless US Presidential campaign over many months, open-mouthed at how low it has sunk. A reality TV celebrity kingpin real estate billionnaire (who, I learned this morning, is an anagram of ‘Tan Dump Lord‘) is extremely close to winning the Presidency against probably one of the most qualified, deserving and divisive...Read More
I must confess I am a bit of an addict when it comes to the US Election. As such, I am a frequent visitor to two of the best websites that try to make sense of what is going on, FiveThirtyEight and Politico. The US Presidential election is an incredibly long examination process for what is probably...Read More
