Business’s CGT backlash shows a dangerous blind spot
I took home an award at a business awards night recently, so I'm writing this from inside the tent: the CGT tantrum says more about how business sees the country than it does about the tax.
Ben Lenzo
Think well. Not just fast.
Founder, board chair, operator who writes. Thirty years and one $18M games studio taught me that the expensive mistakes come from acting before you’ve checked your perception. The Perception Check is one real idea a week, and one thing to do with it.
Board Chair Orana NSW Inc
Founder & CEO The Perception Collective (Zoho Partner)
Builder Family Member Care · The Care Card · NDIS & Aged Care Provider Kit · Challenge The Frame
Disney · Fox · MGM · Microsoft among corporate and government transactions signed
Recent writing
The Pre-Loaded Bias in a Word
Some words do your thinking for you. 'Red tape' can be a very expensive one in business.
The ATO can see your workarounds now
The Green-Tick Gap: Payday Super Will Find Your Workarounds
The Fights We Don't Pick: The Targets That Don't Bite Back
Australia has banned a foreign prediction market, age-gated social media, and once "made" Meta switch off the news. It still won't touch the gambling lobby bleeding $31.5 billion a year out of its own households. Now the worst possible company wants to build a product that sits in exactly that blind spot.
The thinking
Three lenses run through the writing: a discipline, a model, and the practice that connects them.
- The discipline. The Perception Check Read the latest →
- The model. The MAD Rules of Reinvestment Read the framework →
- The practice. Challenge The Frame Take the course →
What I build
The Perception Collective
Strategy, technology and critical thinking for organisations ready to challenge their own assumptions.
Challenge The Frame
The critical thinking course for operators rebuilding how they make decisions.