Mr Lewis

I said to my  wife, “I believe my problem is I have current and future communication complexity”.  She said “w*nker”.  I said “I’ve got a phone problem” so she said, “then fix it”. 1.    I work out of 3 offices (that’s including the kitchen table at home). 2.    At one of my offices, I am…

I used to sell people. Although I had the occasional slave trader vision, usually accompanied by lots of whipping, the reality was much more mundane. Apart from the part where no one wanted to have coffee with me – it turned out I had developed the habit of sacking people at coffee, but hadn’t noticed…

Having run a number of businesses full of Gen Y staff, I found that they were very focused on managing their own career.  Topics such as loyalty normally drew blank faces, as the industry norm was career advancement through job hopping. In fact many of my competitors refused to train staff as they knew it…

Last week we decided to have a look at Triggers for Exponential Growth at the Churchill Club.  The event was based on my question “Are there identifiable triggers that send a business absolutely mental?”  Although not truly meeting the definition of “exponential”, we did pick 3 companies that had achieved massive growth and convinced their…

From a technology business point of view, I learnt a couple of nasty things about Facebook last week. Like about 70 others I attended the Facebook Developers Garage in Melbourne to see what was going on with Facebook. Facebook is the American social networking phenomena that was launched in 2004 and now has over 64…

The other week I mentioned how to give quality instructions.  A lesson I had learned from the Army that I had transferred to the commercial world. It was suggested to me that I might like to pass another Army method -> Commercial tool lesson on.  So having watched a Harry Potter Movie with the kids…

I was looking at a problem over the weekend, around a correct business model for calculating shipping fees for a client.  The problem was really about determining how they determined their shopping costs as the variations can be complex (flat rate, weight based, quantity based, distance shipping, speed shipped, supplier used etc).  I was rolling…

Everybody loves the word Strategy.  MBA’s specialize in Strategy.  So do a variety of consulting firms such as McKinsey and Bain & Co.  This is another organisation that specializes in strategy and has been doing so for thousands of years. This organisation is very good at learning from its competitors, and learning from its mistakes. …