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Is corporate social purpose dying?
There’s a scene in Monty Python’s Holy Grail film when the plague cart trundles around the village with the cry, ‘bring out your dead’. A…
Why your pitch deck is the problem
Dating has come a long way since Jane Austen’s time. In Regency England, hopeful mamas shared information, reviewed the available prospects for their daughters and…
How to keep your prospects fresh
The British businessman James Goldsmith was famous for his many wives and amorous adventures. He once offered this advice after his third marriage, “if you…
3 ways to balance competing partners
We all want to feel special and valued. My daughter’s prep kids fight for the privilege of holding her hand at recess to get that…
Caught in the crossfire: the CSR manager’s dilemma
Cooking for family can be stressful. One year it was my turn to host Christmas in my tiny flat. It didn’t help that each family…
10 tips for prospect research
How is your partnership prospecting going? Unless you’ve got a Rolodex like Bill Gates, I suspect you don’t have the connections to the corporate partners…
3 ways to make friends with CSR managers
My country friend Kate told me of her favourite maxim, “don’t look over the fence into the next paddock”. It was her way of saying…
3 ways to deal with last-minute requests in partnerships
“Your poor planning is not my emergency” A former colleague once had this quote pasted in big letters above her desk. Her calm efficiency made…
3 secrets to commercial collaborations
The supermarket shelves are awash with commercial collaborations as brands join forces to create new experiences for consumers. Some are inspired successes and others should…
4 ways it’s about time
What’s the one thing that parents of small children crave more than caffeine? It’s not expensive baby equipment or handmade toys. It’s time. Just 10…
4 ways to manage partnership boundaries
The latest trend is for ‘soft parenting’, which involves letting kids explore their emotions and make choices based on internal willingness. The kids behind me…
10 lessons from other people’s mistakes
"It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes." Warren Buffett There is a bridge in Melbourne that’s notorious. The…