Earlier today, I delivered a short lecture, If Music Be The Food Of Life, Love, And Career, as part of an afternoon performance by Adelaide-based singer and cabaret artist, Alexandra Frost. The brief was to discern lessons for life, love, and career, from the music of jazz, blues, and soul, when viewed through the lens […]
MBA Business Insights
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9 Warm Alternatives To Kind Regards: The Passive Aggressive Sign Off You Must Stop Using
In preparing trivia questions for my Adelaide Fringe show, 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword, I was shocked to learn that I needed to find alternatives to kind regards, my favourite valediction at the end of all my emails and letters, considered by many as a passive aggressive sign off. It has […]
Did you ever see a cat go splat? A children’s book for tomorrow’s entrepreneurs
Nonsense and seriousness can often be bedfellows in creative thinking, and a recent exercise at The MBA School Of MBA Credentials has proven that. During a heated discussion about brainstorming, one student exclaimed that another had just squashed their idea, to which the offending student retorted with “meow”. It was not our finest moment of […]
3 bright ideas to help Adelaide University embrace and learn from shutting down for a week
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic robbing Adelaide University of international students, the institution is shutting down this week to save money on wages and electricity but it doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. In fact, there are some glowing reasons why going dark for a week should be embraced. In the […]
Exeter Hotel Adelaide: A review by Professor Longsword
I’m not one for writing reviews of establishments but something struck me this evening as I stumbled into the Exeter Hotel in Rundle Street, so I had to write about it to “think out loud”. I was in the area because I’ve been invited to join the breakfast program on Radio Adelaide on Friday morning […]
Why we should stop free riding on Adelaide trams
I was in the city of Adelaide yesterday, preparing to catch the free tram service from the MBA School Of MBA Credentials (13th floor of 144 King William Street, just above Treasury 1860), when I had an MBA insight: I should not be a free-rider. Of course, if you haven’t earned your MBA you might […]
Uber Eats, the E-Myth Revisited, and Quadrilateral Relations
It seems that every day in the world of business, a new conundrum arises requiring sharp and flexible thought on the part of MBAs to enable us to examine and make sense of it. (We can teach you how at A Lunchtime MBA) Such is the case of a recent dispute between an Uber Eats […]
Pass The Dip: Why Seth Godin’s thinking is in harmony with A Lunchtime MBA
I’m going to let you in on an exciting little secret involving A Lunchtime MBA and marketing superstar and masterful author, Seth Godin. I must confess to being somewhat of a “fan boy” of Seth Godin because his books have shaped my thinking, especially in my last role before starting The MBA School Of MBA […]
The Catch 22 of Cold and Flu: Feverish business insights from Heller’s dystopian bureacracy
In the feverish moments before my 6.25am alarm went off this morning, I had a revelation that I’ll call the Catch 22 of cold and flu. I’ve been thinking about the classic novel, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, and how the mess officer in the story, Milo Minderbinder, became obsessed with expanding mess operations during […]
Primal Leadership: If a giraffe could change its spots, should it?
Is the secret to good leadership the application of new skills or the honing of innate abilities? Many schools and universities believe it is the former but at The MBA School Of MBA Credentials, we believe it is the latter because the research shows there’s little point painting stripes on a giraffe or even trying […]
When the world sneezes, South Australia tourism catches a cold
I have just returned from a wonderful stay at Little Sahara Adventure Centre on Kangaroo Island but, sadly, my thoughts are grim. As I was gently reclining and enjoying the sand swept surrounds, my thoughts turned to predicting the future for tourism in South Australia. I was prompted by a chance observation. A young man […]
