by Jim Stackpool | Jul 13, 2023 | Brand Development, Commoditisation, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Outsourcing, perfectionism
My Dad was a radiologist. Many Saturdays, after watching me from the sideline of a sport-field, I would accompany him to his rooms as he worked his Saturday morning of patient appointments. I enjoyed these mornings working with his dark-room technician in the dim red...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 27, 2023 | Advice is not a Product, advisers v distributors, Best Interests, Brand Development, Commoditisation, Conflict of Interest, Consequences, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Public Good, Separation of advice from product
Amazon Advice is coming to a screen near you. It is already happening. Wesfarmers recently bought a large telehealth business – Instantscripts – for $135m. This purchase was in addition to the company’s $1B acquisition of the Priceline Pharmacy chain...
by Jim Stackpool | Sep 29, 2022 | Advice is not a Product, advice skills, Benchmarks, Business Performance, Business Planning, Career Management, Client Offerings, Commoditisation, Competitive pressures, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Goals, Measures of Success, perfectionism, Quality Advice, Successful On Purpose
The first benchmark of significance to me was a number of flip-flaps. When I could do ten flip-flaps at one time, I’d make the school’s gymnastic team. Gary Kurtz from my class did it. But I could never get to 10. I have slowly moved on from my missed benchmark of...
by Jim Stackpool | Aug 24, 2022 | Advice is not a Product, advisers v distributors, Brand Development, Case Studies, Commoditisation, Future of Financial Advice, growth, Growth Stress, Leadership, Separation of advice from product, stages of growth, worth
For different reasons, all our kids left home once they finished school. The eldest, the family’s best writer, went west to Bathurst to study marketing. The determined actress left Australia to chase opportunities in Vancouver’s film industry. The quiet achiever and...
by Jim Stackpool | Aug 10, 2022 | Advice is not a Product, Brand Development, Business Performance, Business Planning, Career Management, Certainty Advice, Commoditisation, de-brief meeting, dependency, Engagements, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Leverage, Methodical, Mindsets, perfectionism, Productivity, Quality Advice, Rugged Individualist, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, stages of growth, Talent
The old fisherman with the summertime job running the rusty merry-go-round on Terrigal Beach taught me how to rig my fishing lines. He reckoned there was only one fishing knot I’d ever need – the locked half-blood knot. While my mates say I’m wasting money...
