Bankrupts and You?…
This piece from The Age on Monday is starting to sound a little scary. The old living beyond your means, and when the means shift, who’s left scrambling to work out what to do. I, for one, would hate to be in that situation. It’s pressured enough being the sole breadwinner without overextending and having to worry about that aspect too.
…insolvents were increasingly from higher status occupations, had higher levels of personal and household income, and had rising asset and property ownership levels.
A major cause of rises in bankruptcy among the middle class, said Professor Ramsay, has been due to unsustainable home loans. Excessive use of credit as a cause of bankruptcy has jumped significantly in recent years, he added.
Insolvents were also becoming older, he said, and tended to increasingly have dependents, which added financial pressure for many families…
read on…
“Higher status occupations” hey?
And who said having a job made Life more secure. Sounds to me like it’s a false security because when you get paid anyway, as long as you roll up and keep up your end of the employment bargain. But when the other party does not stick to their end, or the goal posts and rules around you move… let the trouble begin!
Time to seriously reconsider that “business” question.
How long can you afford not to be in business?
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How the Black Saturday bushfires changed my experience of Change…
Ever doubted if your approach delivering the results you anticipated? After surviving the Victorian “Black Saturday” bushfires of February 2009, aCE talentNET consultant Karen Curnowreflects on how she chose to cope with this truly life-changing event and the lessons and reminders it offers to all of us involved in managing change…
…I’m not advocating that everyone should think and feel as I do but I am suggesting that this is what worked for me and that how I chose to think about and feel about this sudden, abrupt change in my life deeply shaped my recovery and influenced the subsequent choices I made about my life. Many months later, it has also caused me to reflect on my previous work in organisational change management and to wonder how I could ever have imagined that I could manage anyone else’s change.
To be clear, I haven’t suddenly decided that all forms of organisational change management no longer work. I just believe that in many cases we get the emphasis wrong… keep reading, it’s worth it.
‘STATUSPHERE’ how and where your customers are finding their status fix…
The latest from trendwatching.com…
Whatever industry you’re in, in the end, everything is about status. And since what constitutes status in consumer societies is fragmenting rapidly, like it or not, the need for recognition and status is at the heart of every consumer trend*. Status is the ultimate (hidden) motive, a subconscious but ever-present force.
Now, in a traditional consumer society, where consumption is one of the leading (if not the leading) indicators of success, those who consume the most (and especially those who consume the rarest and most expensive), will typically also attain the highest status. This is why brands have, for decades, gladly provided people with goods, services and experiences that help them (boldly or subtly) impress their peers and help alleviate their anxieties about how they’re perceived by others.
However, mature consumer societies are changing, and so is the ‘STATUSPHERE’: an increasing number of consumers are no longer (solely) obsessed with owning or experiencing the most and/or the most expensive. Our definition:
STATUSPHERE | As consumers are starting to recognize and respect fellow consumers who stray off the beaten consuming-more-than-thou-path, ‘new’ status can be about acquired skills, about eco-credentials, about generosity, about connectivity… All of this makes for a far more diversified ‘STATUSPHERE’ than most brands and organizations have traditionally catered to. Time to really figure out how and where your customers are now finding their status fix.
Stay-at-home moms launching businesses…
Stay-at-home moms are more and more turning into work-at-home moms — using their education and pre-motherhood job experience to launch magazines, develop new products and otherwise remove the stigma of being absent from the 9-5 world by writing their own paycheques.
A survey done by Leger Marketing for eBay Canada ahead of Mother’s Day found that 33 per cent of Canadians know a mother who has either started her own business or would like to — though only 14 per cent have done so.
that’s where the entrepreneurial mother mentoring program comes in…
lets get this party started!
You can have it all, just not all at once…
not sure I agree with all of this… but each to their own
well worth sharing nonetheless
…The real “unfinished business of the feminist movement”, says Phillips, is flexible work patterns for men as well as women, so dads can take on the role of full-time carers.
Without the involvement of men – the ones who run companies, the ones who lead the country and the ones we live with – the lot of women will not improve….
10 tips for Mums Who run Businesses
Being a Mom and running a business is like having two full-time jobs. Inc.com asked women who do it for their advice on how to juggle running a family while building a business…
Katherine Reynolds Lewis, founder of CurrentMom.com (who I used to write Travel Tuesday for) was happy to oblige with the 10 tips…
great work!
