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Personal Debt

With Australians spending an estimated $65billion on Christmas shopping in December 2023, some consumers were not able to pay off their credit card and or buy now pay later finance when they become due in late January or February 2024. Some have sadly declared bankruptcy, which is the theme of

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Design Thinking

Recently, I heard someone say: “You must fail quickly and cheaply in order to learn and succeed”. These words were uttered by an expert in design thinking when talking about the need to experiment with possible solutions to problems. Design thinking is an iterative process to finding solutions and requires

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How being watched by others changes your behaviour

My identical twin brother’s son-in-law is a television camera operator and has years of experience filming people and events from all over the world. From videotaping athletes at the Sochi Winter Paralympics to recording Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, he has experienced first-hand what most of us intuitively know

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Performance Measure pitfalls

Distinguished economists, statisticians and mathematicians often have their name associated with some economic theory, concept or tool. Some examples include Giffen goods, the Nash equilibrium, the Phillips curve and the Gini coefficient. Today, I would like to introduce you to another economic concept – Goodhart’s law. This “law” testifies that

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The Meaning of Life

Now that I am well and truly back in the office, a belated happy New Year to you and best wishes for 2024! Whenever I am on holidays, as I was in January in Canada, I invariably slip into my alter ego role of philosopher. That said you might be

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Extrapolating trends – a word of caution for business owners

Making predictions about the future based on past trends is fraught with danger. What lies ahead is rarely a straight-line extrapolation of historical data. Rather, the path to the future bobs and weaves and zigs and zags as unforeseeable factors almost always intervene. This is why managed investment schemes warn

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