This is an interesting article by Nevil Gibson in The National Business Review: Franchisers face prospect of regulation.
Nevil Gibson starts of with:
The Green Acres franchising scam, in which dozens of new migrants from China and India were bilked of millions of dollars, has sparked a government clampdown on the sector.
Commerce Minister Dalziel [picture] is quoted [...]

Here’s a follow-up to the post I wrote on comparing your game and scoring to the PGA Tour players. We talked about how the best in the world only hit 70% of the fairways and 65% of the greens, but they are excellent in sand saves and putting. Here’s some more condensed stats to chew [...]

In February I wrote about scapegoating at work after noticing that the issue was coming up more and more with my coaching clients. It struck me that scapegoating had become a widespread and growing problem which was posing significant career implications for the victim.
What I hadn’t realised was just how endemic the [...]

A decade ago, I remember laughing out loud at Tom Peters’ Brand You 50, one of the first of a stream of books on how to develop your personal brand. I filed it in the ‘crazy management fads’ box, something that might work in the U.S. but would never be taken seriously in the rest [...]

Have you ever watched as a work colleague has been blamed, exposed or dismissed for the mistakes of their boss or colleague? What have been the effects on the individual and their colleagues? How has it been handled?
In my work as a coach, I am coming across more and more cases of corporate scapegoating, which [...]

What are your suggestions for assessing the capabilities of the U.S. Presidential candidates?

The current Presidential primary season has dramatically illustrated the unrealistic expectations that are being placed upon today’s political leaders.
For a second, let’s assume that the three remaining major candidates for President are basically good people, who want to do what they believe [...]

My Babson colleague Bala Iyer and I have written an article on Google in the current issue of Harvard Business Review. While there is no shortage of words written about GOOG, I hope this piece says some unique things. To me, what is truly distinctive about Google is that it is the prototypical 21st century [...]

The Master of Fine Arts is the new MBA. So argued author Daniel Pink in a recent New York Times story about the new creative economy, in which even old-school corporations like GM increasingly value imaginative “right-brain” thinkers. Harvard Business blogger Tom Davenport vehemently disagrees. While I agree with Tom’s sensible point that all jobs [...]

What are your suggestions for assessing the capabilities of the U.S. Presidential candidates?

The current Presidential primary season has dramatically illustrated the unrealistic expectations that are being placed upon today’s political leaders.
For a second, let’s assume that the three remaining major candidates for President are basically good people, who want to do what they believe is [...]