by Jim Stackpool | Oct 13, 2022 | advice skills, advisers v distributors, Benchmarks, Business Performance, Competitive pressures, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Measures of Success, Professionalism, Separation of advice from product, Successful On Purpose, Value Proposition
Some lessons from the covid pandemic promised to unleash new productivity growth. Studies don’t prove it. Yet. The Economist reported that post-pandemic spending is reinforcing supply lines, re-building inventories and attracting talent from the tiniest unemployment...
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 4, 2022 | Advice Clients, Business Performance, Business Planning, Career Management, Competitive pressures, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Greater Good, Leadership, Productivity, Quality Advice, Serve the Greater Good, Transformations, Valuations, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
I love my vinyl record collection. It started when I discovered Electric Warrior in early ’76. The collection continues to grow despite Anna’s opinion that I’m a hoarder. Regular vinyl still beats the best digital sound – vinyl is so much bigger, brighter and better....
by Jim Stackpool | Feb 25, 2022 | Certainty Advice, client conversations, Competitive pressures, Consultative Approach, Corporations Act, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Separation of advice from product, Uncategorized, Value Proposition, Vertical Integration
Know any life and personal insurance agents? My first training workshop was full of them. That was November 1989 at Greenmount Resort, Coolangatta. My “Agent as a Business Person” workshop aimed to assist attendees with the opportunities created by the...
by Jim Stackpool | Nov 27, 2019 | Best Interests, Client Offerings, Competitive pressures, Compliance, Conflict of Interest, Future of Financial Advice, Wealth Management
The 11th March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by the Tohoku earthquake was the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. However, while no deaths are due radiation exposure from the disaster itself, new research suggests that more people suffered and...
by Jim Stackpool | Oct 30, 2019 | Best Interests, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Competitive pressures, Conflict of Interest, Consultative Approach, Financial Complexity, Future of Financial Advice, Measures of Success, Mindsets, Pricing Advice, Value of Advice
Read Good Walk Spoiled? I reckon it’s a great book. It’s about golf, but really a story about characters. Characters under pressure. That’s golf – either a casual hit or a classic test of character. At the highest levels of the game, the classic tests can be...
