Coming to Terms
When I founded the Empire, payment terms gave me more grief than my quest for clients. It was only my mentors’ patient advice that helped me resolve this angst and realise the world of business isn’t always fair. In these present interesting times, however, one client has pierced my cocoon of tranquillity. Should I lower [...]
How to Get Upset
Pythagoras said, ‘In anger we should refrain both from speech and action’.
Someone else said, ‘Never send a message in anger’.
But they never had to struggle from sleep, stumble down the hall and switch their printer to fax mode – just to receive an unsolicited 10% OFF!!! toner cartridge offer.
Buddha said, ‘Holding on to anger [...]
The Black Art of Bookkeeping
It may surprise (and even reassure) you to know I don’t use MYOB. I have other software, having seized a one-year-free deal without knowing what it meant.
I now pay for updates each year that cost more than the original program. Worse, I chose a version to handle five staff, who all had to go when [...]
