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Organise online to succeed offline – the connected world
Business online architecture is driven by the culture of cloud computing adapted for use with mobile technologies. And it creates a “constantly connected” environment that we either master to serve us in three major themes, or we become slaves to our own electronic environment. Those themes are effectiveness and productivity, balance and awareness, growth and…
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Step out of your comfort zone
A few weeks ago daredevil Nik Wallenda walked – untethered – atop Orlando’s 400-foot high Ferris wheel – as it was spinning. This is the same guy who traversed a tightrope stretched across the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and between two Chicago skyscrapers. In an interview he said he wants to be an inspiration for…
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Gardasil Survivors in Ireland Launch Support Group
The R.E.G.R.E.T. Support Group was launched recently in Ireland by parents of chronically ill teenage girls. These parents blame an injection the girls received at school as the cause of their daughters’ illness. The drug in question is called Gardasil and is being marketed as an anti-cancer vaccine. R.E.G.R.E.T. is an acronym for “Reactions and Effects of Gardasil…
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Walmart Is Rolling out a Primary Health Care “whole of store” Concept
It’s not just pharmacy expansion that US retail giant Walmart is changing the face of, but the entire scope of primary health care. This brings them into direct conflict with medical centres and given the massive resources and scale of operations, they are in a position to alter the primary health care market significantly and…
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Pharmacy Needs Education & Training – Who will fill this need?
I recently read an article on leadership in the Harvard Business Review where a distinction was made between training and education and a view that educational establishments collectively over-invest in education and under-invest in training. Typically, higher education prizes knowledge over skills. This produces knowledgeable leaders and managers while training and skills go to those…
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Marketing Focus: 1. Dunning Kruger Effect 2. Modern Retailing 3. A Sustainable World
That explains a lot! Australian Labor Party (ALP) political heavy-weights Bill Shorten, Tanya Plibersek, and Penny Wong appear to have at least one thing in common. They each exhibit the characteristics of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It is not an affliction that is limited to politicians and politics. Some business owners and marketers (along with their entities,…
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Biased Reporting on the ABC Breakfast Program
To the ABC Breakfast Presenters: Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland On 29 May 2015 you interviewed the popular cartoonist Michael Leunig about his cartoons advocating freedom of speech and informed consent in vaccination. You dismissed the right of individuals to choose how many vaccines they use by claiming that the ‘science is proven’ and that anti-vaccination…
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Do You Have Disaster Recovery Plan For Your Business?
Most business owners are optimists! That is why they went into business in the first place. However, being optimists, many business owners don’t consider the risks that can threaten the very existence of their business, and as such, their own and their employees’ financial well being. The purpose of this blog post is to get…
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Pharmacy Nemesis Roger Corbett – Back to the Future
Influential shareholders of Woolworths are seeking to invite Roger Corbett, the nemesis of Australian pharmacy, back into the fold as chairman. They say: “Woolworths needs a circuit breaker. Given the way Woolworths has lost direction and given the loss of shareholder value, there needs to be accountability – what’s needed is a circuit breaker to sort out the…
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“Miswanting” –A relevant word for the pharmacy profession
Recently, I stumbled over an unusual word that I have now added to my vocabulary. That word was “miswanting” – a rather poignant word from the world of psychology. It is a word used to describe the human tendency to desire things that make us unhappy, and to shun things that fulfill us. Psychologists have…