Entrepreneurs are by nature risk takers, and I’m often asked the question as to how you can get comfortable living with risk. I think the ability to make friends with risk is what sets entrepreneurs apart. Pretty much everybody I’ve ever met has an idea that could potentially be a business, but there are two […]
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June 30th would have been my dad’s 70th birthday. Dad died of mesothelioma at 57, 13 years ago next month, as a result of workplace exposure to asbestos back in the 60’s when he was an apprentice fitter and turner with the State Electricity Commission in Victoria at Hazelwood Power Station. Sascha was only 7 […]
Providing people with the opportunity to let us know how they’re feeling has always been an important part of our workplace culture, and we’ve used a variety of different mechanisms to do this over the years, ranging from in person and electronic discussion forums to survey tools with both fixed and customisable content. One of […]
This Thursday night I’ll be joining nearly 200 other CEO’s and business leaders from Brisbane to sleep outdoors at Suncorp Stadium for this years Vinnies CEO Sleepout. I’ve slept out with Vinnies twice before in 2012 and 2013 (last year I was overseas with Sascha at the Girl Up Summit in Washington so couldn’t be […]
After my post on our office relocation last week where we introduced the latest of our Epic Culture Creatures, Bright Spark, we’ve had a few requests to explain the whole tribe, who they are and how they came about. Reward and recognition is a really important part of our culture at Epic, and several years ago […]