Workafrolic is the latest buzzword of a neologism to pique my curiosity and it will no doubt lead to an obsession in due course. Richard St. John author of Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky and Rich defines a workafrolic in a recent interview... Successful people work hard, but they love it. They're "workafrolics", St. John says, because they have fun working. Australian graphic designer Sonya Mefaddi provided a slightly more ... Read full entry

Not sure about anywhere else, but certainly in the sporting arena red is a colour that is associated with success, and good fortune. Red is thought to bring good luck for Chinese and is the color of items ranging from packets of lucky money handed out at Lunar New Year to lanterns and wedding dresses. And Tiger Woods famously wears red on the last day of a golf tournament ... Read full entry

The five habits of effective and successful leaders by John McKee. Truly powerful people have an air of calm about them. This helps those around them act more rationally and be more successful pushing the organisation through difficult times. Exhibit calmness at all times. It will become your nature.

The road to success beyond your dreams is littered with cliches and motivational one liners (designed to sell books more than anything probably), not to mention the wrecks of countless failed undertakings. We're all big on dreams and destiny and vision, and we grasp onto stories about people who, through persistence and determination, proved a naysayer wrong. We like late-bloomers almost as much as prodigies. The message is not ... Read full entry

What makes some ideas stick, or work, (such as YouTube, Facebook, or even urban legends) while other, sometimes quite similar variations, fail to see the light of day? To succeed ideas need a couple of standard ingredients, including the element of surprise, concrete imagery, and must somehow be emotive, writes Kristen Le Mesurier. A few years ago, two brothers - one a university professor at Stanford and one a corporate education ... Read full entry

Australia's best entrepreneurs aged 30 and under A list of 30 Australian entrepreneurs aged 30 and under, both established and up-and-coming, compiled by Brad Howarth. I'll admit it - trying to narrow down a list of 30 of Australia's best entrepreneurs aged 30 and under is no easy task. So for this exercise for SmartCompany I defined the task as finding 30 entrepreneurs aged 30 and under worth watching. ... Read full entry

50 Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time While the list only comprises American entrepreneurs, it still makes for an interesting read. And is there anything Benjamin Franklin didn't do? He was a printer and self-taught writer whose witty conversational writing style made his Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack the most successful publications in the country. His printing operations were so successful that he franchised printing in other cities when the ... Read full entry

1,000 True Fans When disassociated.com.au first went live ten or so years ago, it was one of about a million* websites that then existed, while today it is estimated there are from 15 to 30 billion sites about. As with the ever fragmenting music industry, getting a slice of the fame-action online is also becoming increasingly difficult. Rather than chase the masses though, Kevin Kelly suggests that finding ... Read full entry

In ten plus years of online journalling/weblogging/whatever else, the comment facility here has only been operational for about the last eight months of that time. That was mainly because disassociated ran off hand coded static HTML files for most of the first ten years, and installing a comment feature, though possible, would have been tricky. I was also largely averse to having comments in the first place, as some ... Read full entry

A powerful, modern woman Scarlett Johansson discusses ambition, success, and her role in The Other Boleyn Girl, where she plays Mary Boleyn, one of King Henry VIII's mistresses. It's 450 years since Anne Boleyn's head fell from the chopping block but ambitious women are still regarded with suspicion by Hollywood's chroniclers, the popular press. Johansson is not the kind of person to bow to those expectations. "Ambition is healthy," she ... Read full entry