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Dealing with an e-snub

What should you do when someone suddenly stops responding to your emails? Hot on the heels of “phubbing”, when people…

Nik Halik is living the dream and he wants to teach the rest of the world how to do likewise.…

In a nutshell, here’s how the Branson way of doing business works. Hire for personality, not skill For most recruiters,…

Want to succeed in business without really trying? Just make sure you look sexy. As the working year clicks into…

If the experts are right, within the next five years we’ll all know our genetic make-up. But are we ready…

With four million baby boomers heading towards retirement, the advertising industry is reconsidering the wisdom of its obsession with youth.

Back in 2009, Matt Barrie launched Freelancer.com with the intention of it becoming “the eBay of jobs”. Long story short,…

For over 150 years Geelong has demonstrated an impressive facility to transform its industrial base when required. That Protean adaptability…

In contrast to many other former steel-making centres across the globe, the Hunter region has enthusiastically adapted to a globalised…

Adrian Ballintine’s unlikely career has seen him go from working as an assistant town clerk to owning one of the…

When an Aussie baker constructed a novelty cookie-making machine to attract customers in 1950s Melbourne, little could he have imagined…

When a small Australian renewable energy company was formed in 1992 not even its most optimistic backers imagined that it…