Mr Lewis

Tag: entrepreneur

  • Getting Paid Twice

    How do you make $2 profit from every $1 sale? That was the guts of a fabulous speech by Goran Roos last night at the Churchill Club. Its hard to put Goran in a box, but he is a management consultant, entrepreneur, Professor, Chair of the Finnish version of the CSIRO and currently on loan…

  • NDAs and 5 tips for getting them signed

    When I was a pimply faced lad and just received my commission to be an Army Officer, I had my new boss, a senior Armoured Corps Officer held up to me as the example I should emulate. It wasn’t because he was a particularly great leader or a great soldier though, it was because he…

  • 3 keys to no bullshit plans

    Pretty much on a  weekly basis I get sent ideas,  business plans and/or Information Memorandums for capital raising.  Everyone who sends me one, tends to think its an expertly crafted, zero risk proposal to achieve a massive return with a world changing idea. I don’t. So when a couple of weeks ago, Justin Brow asked…

  • What happens after failure….

    This is a video of a speech I did in June this year on corporate failure at AIMIA.  Rather than talk about climbing back up, or just hanging on the cliff, I decided to talk about what happens when you actually fall off and your business fails. It was probably a bit too candid.  Its…

  • Style vs Substance

    I was having coffee with a colleague of mine Steve this week. Steve works in international sales for a highly successful Australian air monitoring business called Ecotech. Over coffee we were drawing a parallel between pain and knowledge. Basically pain doesn’t seem to hurt as much when you get older because you have a much…

  • Geographically Embarrassed Businesses

    Geographically Embarrassed. Its a euphemism for being lost. Whenever you go wandering about in the bush on an Army exercise, individuals or groups are sure to get lost. In my my experience, the first assumption made when you realise you are lost is that the map was wrong. Unfortunately it almost never is. The army…