Under normal circumstances each year there are thousands of companies which end up (voluntarily or otherwise) in some form of external administration. In the middle of a pandemic, you would expect that this figure would increase. Contrary to this however, the latest Business Stress Report released by insolvency specialist firm, Dissolve, highlights a significant and…
Articles by Mark Creedon
Mark Creedon is Director of Metropole Business Advisory and business coach to some of Australia's leading entrepreneurs - each who call him their "unreasonable friend"
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We all fail at times – even the most successful people. I know I seem to have had more than my share of failures along the way. One of my biggest lessons along the way was to learn to take responsibility for my failures and not blame others. Another lesson was to pick myself up,…
You’re feeling swamped. You don’t know if you can get all of your work done. You have a million people demanding your time. Sound familiar? I write a lot about the importance of mental toughness, of hard work and resilience. But just as important as stamina and a strong work ethic is realizing when something’s…
Are you waiting for things to change? Maybe you’re waiting for things to change so you can be happy or you’re waiting for things to change so you can finally take action on some of your ambitions. Maybe you’re wanting your business or professional practice to step up to the next level or you’re waiting…
Are you an entrepreneur? We’re in the golden age of the entrepreneur, and there has never been a better time to start a company or launch a product. After the success of disruptors like Uber and Airbnb, there’s no shortage of people keen to create their own companies that will change the way we work…
Everyone has a different idea of what success looks like. For many, it’s financial, while for others it’s success in personal relationships (although both feed into each other, but that’s a blog post for another time). You may even have an idea of what a successful person looks like, and from that you have put…
There’s just too much to do and not enough time to get it all done!” Sound familiar? If you ever feel this way at work, you’re not alone. Today’s demanding work environments and technology keep you hooked into work 24/7, and it has a large number of workers feeling overwhelmed. Most of the time, being…
We all know that persevering is the key to success. In fact, it’s been the take-home message of many of my success blogs. I write a lot about the importance of digging in when the chips are down, of persevering when you feel like downing tools and going home. They’re important traits and many successful…
The world is supposedly divided into the haves and the have nots. The reality is, like Yoda once said, it is the dos and the do nots. What I mean by that is that success is as much to do with mindset as it is to do with anything else. The most successful people have…
Many people think that in order to be successful they need to be perfect — perfect at business, perfect at the gym, and perfect when socialising with friends. I’m here to tell you that’s not the case, and there’s no need to place that much pressure on yourself. As I’ve written before, determination and persistence are…