by Jim Stackpool | Nov 2, 2023 | Activity v Productivity, Advice Conversations, best practice, Business Performance, Client Meetings, Client Offerings, Collaboration, Covid-19, Delegation, Future of Financial Advice, Impact, Leadership, Rugged Individualist
My wife Anna loves book club. She comes home from their dinners with a new thought-provoking discussion sparked by the book, regardless of whether she liked it, read it or hated it. Their latest was Lessons in Chemistry, which also recently began as a series on Apple...
by Jim Stackpool | Feb 11, 2021 | Advice Clients, Best Interests, Client Care, Consultative Approach, Covid-19, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Value of Advice
“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.” ~ George Bernard Shaw Financial advice is less about financial products and more about consequences, particularly significant consequences. Obviously, not all decisions have significant...
by Jim Stackpool | Jan 27, 2021 | Client Care, Covid-19, Leadership, Professionalism, value
The impact of the 2020 coronavirus is immeasurable. What is measurable however is the impact of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern’s leadership overseeing her country’s response to the virus. Significantly too is the comparative measure of her country’s response compared to...
by Jim Stackpool | Aug 26, 2020 | Advice Clients, Best Interests, Business Performance, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Consultative Approach, Covid-19, fakeadvice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Mindsets, Value of Advice
I love flying. Always have. Long flights, short trips, big planes, tiny ones, hang-gliders, choppers. When I was a kid, Dad would sometimes drive out to a small park on the Cooks River which bordered Mascot airport to watch the arrivals and departures. From there you...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 29, 2020 | Advice Clients, Best Interests, Client Offerings, Consultative Approach, Covid-19, Hayne Royal Commission, Leadership, Measures of Success, Paradigm, Professionalism, value, Value of Advice
Congratulations to the recently announced Top 100 Financial Advisers for 2020. After exhaustive research and analysis by The Australian and Barrons, this list of talent represent the best in Australia. They deserve their accolades as do all high achievers and leaders...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 16, 2020 | Covid-19, Planning, Talent, Uncategorized, Uncertainty, value, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
My son is addicted to art. Big time. Turn your back on him and he’s sketching something, leaving trails of charcoal fingerprints in unlikely places, getting lost in his own space. Even since he was five, his art has been his bliss (and frustration). Is his work...
