by MasaDM | Jul 15, 2019 | blog
Ah yes, the exposure. There’s plenty of advice out there about how to avoid the risk of getting cornered by a client/potential client who offers you loads of business exposure instead of payment. All excellent, but none deals with the back story, the context...
by Anna Ridgway | Nov 29, 2018 | blog, Business goals, Modern Slavery, SMEs, supply chains
ON FRIDAY Australia’s federal Parliament delivered landmark modern slavery legislation, which requires big businesses to act on slavery in their operations and supply chains. I was walking to the Collingwood Post Office as the Act was passed. En route, my eye...
by Anna Ridgway | Jun 13, 2018 | blog, Modern Slavery, SMEs, supply chains
Changes in consumer behaviours and legislation will make addressing issues of modern slavery a key factor for businesses of all sizes. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), through the flow-on effects of larger businesses’ reporting requirements and consumer...
by Anna Ridgway | Dec 23, 2017 | blog, Communicating across cultures, Developing trust, ethical business
I was in luck. I had gone out without a backpack and the bin had long gone, but there was an ‘I Love Salvos Stores’ cloth bag on the road below the lookout, still intact. I shook it out and stepped off the road onto the lookout over Melbourne’s Yarra River off...
by Anna Ridgway | Aug 30, 2017 | blog, globalisation
As the world order we know changes around us, China seems poised to take over the United States’ mantle as the preeminent global power…with all the unpalatable realities of global hegemony and heavy resonsibilities of global leadership. Is China ready for...
by Anna Ridgway | Feb 10, 2017 | blog, Communicating across cultures, export, international business, Managing across cultures
Australia’s now-sliding reputation for clean business has rested on laurels achieved in a less globally connected past. Its four-year slippage down the international corruption perception rankings has earned a reprieve, thanks in part to recent false accounting...
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