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The month of May typically heralds a federal budget. What’s in store for businesses this year as COVID persistently and irritatingly continues to affect us with ongoing lockdowns and restrictions? Read More | 
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Economic updateListen to a Preview
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Running Time: 7:39The federal budget is around the corner, our debt blowout is mind-boggling, the vaccine roll-out is stumbling and interest rates remain stubbornly low. Read More |  Prof. Neville Norman, Melbourne University
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How’s your succession plan going?Listen to a Preview
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Running Time: 9:07If you’re considering retiring in the next few years, do you intend to pass your business on to the next generation? If so, now’s the time to start the process, advises Greg Griffith, CEO of Family Business Australia. Read More |  Greg Griffith, Family Business Australia
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Easing the pain of post-JobKeeper layoffsListen to a Preview
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Running Time: 9:00Many small businesses have managed to stay afloat thanks to the government’s JobKeeper program. But as JobKeeper is withdrawn, serious cost-cutting may be needed to keep the doors open, and that might include the grim task of laying off staff. Read More |  Athena Koelmeyer, Workplace Law
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Are you breadcrumbing staff?Listen to a Preview
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Running Time: 9:56Promising your employees bonuses or promotions, but never following through, is known as “breadcrumbing”. Read More |  Karen Gately, Corporate Dojo
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Divorce: when personal and business life collidesListen to a Preview
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Running Time: 8:45Divorce is stressful enough but add the additional element of a family business to the mix and the complications can be hugely magnified – especially when an amicable arrangement can’t be reached by the warring couple. Read More |  Kim Hanrick, Mazars
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Investing in today’s stock marketListen to a Preview
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Running Time: 9:10How are you supposed to make money from your savings in this low interest rate environment? That’s a question many investors have been asking themselves when they look at the measly returns they get from term deposits or money in the bank. Read More |  Greg Keady, APW Partners
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Don’t pigeonhole your customersListen to a Preview
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Running Time: 10:57The labels marketers use to describe consumers are no longer fit for purpose. So says customer engagement expert Michael Solomon, whose new book, ‘The New Chameleons’, outlines how consumers defy the categories in which businesses like to place them. Read More |  Michael Solomon
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Closing comments / quote of the monthListen Now
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Our quote of the month is from renowned US author Jim Collins, who wrote “Good to Great: why some companies make the leap – and others don’t”. Jim famously said... Read More | 
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