Food guru Maeve O’Meara is this month’s cover woman, sharing the secrets to juggling motherhood with her television and media commitments. Dynamic Business also looks at team building, getaways for stressed minds and the keys to good systemisation.
Cover Story: Gourmet's Safari to Success
Feature: Developing Business Systems
Feature: Fleet Management
Gourmet’s Safari to Success - Maeve O'Meara
Maeve O’Meara describes her multi-stranded career as a translation service for tastebuds. Also a mother of young children, this dynamic entrepreneur tells Camille Howard how maintaining A work–life balance is crucial to her definition of success.
A business with no succession plan for the owner is set for self-destruction, or at least major problems. Matthew Hourn and Jonathan Karlovsky explore the important issues and how succession plans can be tailored to suit particular circumstances.
Fleet management is a blend of maths and magic. Liz Swanton finds the delicate balance of practicality and prediction is becoming more acute in a climate of rising petrol prices. On the plus side, there are more options for tailoring management solutions for fleets, from one car to hundreds.
There’s more to effective team development than making up the numbers, or even the skill set required to achieve a desired outcome - Charisse Gray looks at ways to motivate people, rather than robots, to work together effectively and happily.
When it comes to protecting your intellectual property, starting with your business name, Michael Sutton discovers SMEs aren’t as well protected as they think.
Many business owners neglect the opportunity for some ‘me’ time. Here are a few weekend getaway ideas for leaving business worries behind and relaxing in beautiful, interesting and exciting places.
Since you first considered exporting, it’s been quite a journey through the nuts and bolts of entering international markets. Now you need to put everything together in one document—your export plan.
The entrepreneurial spirit of a small business owner can sometimes be at odds with rigorous business systems - Domini Stuart looks at various models to find out how business systems can enhance operations but still allow the business to change and evolve.
Trade agreements are opening doors for food exports, but as Joe Parkes finds, there’s still room to improve the way for food exports between local ports and destinations overseas.
