Alan Manly OAM

Alan Manly AOM is the CEO of CampusQ and author of The Unlikely Entrepreneur. Alan is a published author, company director and entrepreneur with over thirty years of experience in the technology and education industries. Alan has twenty years of experience as a Company Director with private, public and NFP companies. He has been active in representing the education industry and is a former Board member of two education industry peak bodies.

Alan Manly is an Executive Council member at the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, for more information, visit the author’s website CLICK HERE.

Tech and Innovation

Can entrepreneurialism be taught?

Tech and InnovationAlan Manly OAM

It’s an age-old question with new-found relevance in a COVID world: can entrepreneurialism be taught? The answer depends on asking another, more important, question. I would suggest that yes, entrepreneurialism can be taught in one way or another. However, the real question is: who is the teacher? Building enough knowledge...

Tech and Innovation

5 ways to encourage intrapreneurship at work

Tech and InnovationAlan Manly OAM

Entrepreneurs are credited with being the driving force of innovation. So how does an entrepreneur scale up their entrepreneurial capacity other than work themselves into an early grave? With great difficulty, is the first response. It seems counterintuitive that an entrepreneur would delegate the authority to implement great new ideas...

CEO Insider

How To Develop An Entrepreneurial Mindset

CEO InsiderAlan Manly OAM

Individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset are often drawn to business opportunities involving new ideas and the converting those ideas into a business to capitalise on their cleverness. If you are drawn to one or more of these ideas then you potentially have an entrepreneurial mindset. Such a mindset is not only an asset but a skill. The good...

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5 Business Success Secrets From An Unlikely Entrepreneur

Executive InsiderAlan Manly OAM

When you think of a typical entrepreneur, you might envision a tech savvy Zuckerberg-ish type with quality education or $ behind them. But in truth, there’s many forms of entrepreneurs and not all of them are as you’d expert. I’m neither a genius nor over educated and I’m definitely not...

CEO Agenda

How To Bounce Back After A Start-up Failure

CEO AgendaAlan Manly OAM

The journey of an entrepreneur after a startup failure can be compared to the experience of losing a loved one. The resultant grief of such a loss is discussed in the famous paper titled the “Five stages of grief” by Kubler- Ross. These five stages are identified as denial, anger,...

Education and Career

The key personality traits of successful entrepreneurs

Education and CareerAlan Manly OAM

Think entrepreneurship is all about fast cars and flashy suits? Think again. The most successful entrepreneurs have some distinctive traits in common, and not all of them loveable. Statistically speaking, most entrepreneurs aren’t successful: data shows that some 80 percent of entrepreneurial ventures fail. So what is it that makes...

Education and Career

Hire freelancers or salaried staff? How to determine your hiring needs when starting out

Education and CareerAlan Manly OAM

Hiring staff can be more an art than a science, and knowing who or how to hire can be a daunting part of the process of starting or growing your business. In addition to salaried employees, potential staff can present themselves as entities (ie. a company with ABN) with agreed...

CEO Agenda

5 Myths about becoming an entrepreneur

CEO AgendaAlan Manly OAM

Stories about entrepreneurs make great headlines. The success story line has a few proven main themes - Poor boy/girl makes good, David versus Goliath, or believe it or not! However we get there, the reader can’t help but wonder, could that success me mine if I tried my hand as...

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How I mastered my elevator pitch

CEO InsiderAlan Manly OAM

Everybody in business has a pitch. The goal is to deliver your pitch in the time taken for an average elevator ride being about thirty seconds. Whilst many pitches are refined by trial and error over time and serve their purpose well enough, in typical entrepreneurial fashion I have my...

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6 ways to conquer the networking nightmare

CEO InsiderAlan Manly OAM

Not everyone in business are natural show ponies. Some are inherently shy, and while you don’t need to be the loudest person at networking events, you still need to know how to work the room. After all, “it's not what you know, but who you know”. Here are six steps to getting over the fear of networking: First...

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Alan Manly OAM

Can entrepreneurialism be taught?

5 ways to encourage intrapreneurship at work

How To Develop An Entrepreneurial Mindset

5 Business Success Secrets From An Unlikely Entrepreneur

How To Bounce Back After A Start-up Failure

The key personality traits of successful entrepreneurs

Hire freelancers or salaried staff? How to determine your hiring needs when starting out

5 Myths about becoming an entrepreneur

How I mastered my elevator pitch

6 ways to conquer the networking nightmare

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