by Jim Stackpool | Aug 16, 2022 | best practice, Brand Development, Business Performance, Business Planning, Career Management, Future of Financial Advice, growth, Growth Stress, Leadership, Measures of Success, perfectionism, Priorities, Productivity, Professionalism, Profitability, stages of growth, Successful On Purpose, Uncategorized, underdelegation
Know any Texans? If you have to think about it, the answer is probably no. These guys stand out. I’ve been there several times and have never met a timid one. In the early 1980s, I worked in a small Australian software firm founded by Bruce – a tall, lanky...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 15, 2022 | Advice Clients, Advice is not a Product, Best Interests, Brand Development, Business Planning, Certainty Advice, Conflict of Interest, fakeadvice, Financial Governance, Financial Paths, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Greater Good, Leadership, LIfe Choices, Measures of Success, Public Good, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, valuable advice, Vertical Integration
I love the bush. I reckon it has something to do with my four grandparents being raised in NSW’s central west. It never ceases to amaze me how much I enjoy touring on unmarked open country roads with windows down and the elements whooshing in. Even when...
by Jim Stackpool | Oct 6, 2020 | Advice Clients, Business Planning, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Compliance, Measures of Success, Priorities, Successful On Purpose, Value Proposition
I love Monty Python humour. Remember the crucifixion or freedom skit from “Life of Brian”? Michael Palin playing the whimsical centurion questioning a line-up of captives regarding their fate or freedom. Many financial advisers seem to have become...
by Jim Stackpool | Sep 27, 2018 | Business Performance, Measures of Success
How do Advice Firms Grow? In many ways. But I believe there are distinct patterns that if understood as part of a bigger cycle, it may help you grow faster or appreciate how you are growing (or why you are not growing as you’d hoped). I’ve developed a...
