I came across a news article recently about medical researchers using mosquitoes for early cancer detection. It turns out that mosquitoes’ heightened sense of smell allows them to detect a minute change in the odour of an early-stage cancer patient’s breath. So mosquitoes might end up saving millions of human lives by helping us diagnose […]
As Mark Twain once observed: “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” The same is true of property cycles. They often rhyme – and to accurately detect the patterns, you need to study the data. Not just any data. You need access to data sets that tell you what is happening on the ground […]
Negotiation is a game – and like all games of skill, you get better at it with practice. A big part of negotiation success is having the gumption to ask for a better deal (even when you feel you are getting a good deal). Most people are too polite to ask, so they fail at […]
EG is co-founder of a remarkable Australian success story called Willow which is leading the global trend towards digital twins. Digital twins can use data and AI to predict when the lifts in a building are likely to break down and to get them fixed before they do. Predictive maintenance got me thinking about the […]
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I was extremely fortunate to spend six years of my career working closely with the late, great John Robert Caldon, 1947-2021 (former Deputy MD of Macquarie). To be around John was to be mentored. It was in his very DNA and it happened naturally, generously, round the clock. Some of his many insights below: On […]
We all negotiate, and whether we know it or not, we negotiate about almost everything every day. So it’s worth spending some time thinking about how to negotiate a little better – especially if you negotiate over hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, as EG does in a typical year. The first thing to […]
An article last week in The Australian caught my attention: https://lnkd.in/gbajkfH It postulated that many of the recent surprise results in the English Premier League were due to the fact that high profile teams were not coping well with the “low energy” vibe of empty stadiums. COVID-19 is changing the playing field both in sports […]
After a long rant about what was going wrong with his business, a friend of mine recently asked me what he should do. I replied mischievously: “Whenever I find myself in a situation like this, I play Julio Iglesias’ song: Sin Excusas, Ni Rodeos.” https://lnkd.in/gu4RJses He looked confounded so I translated: “Without excuses, no detours.” […]