Planning for Profit and work/life balance with Carmen Quade

Planning for Profit and work/life balance
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Planning for Profit and work/life balance with Carmen Quade

“In terms of profitability and working more hours to make more profit. The first thing I tell people is at what point do you reach maximum? You max out pretty quickly because you can only work a certain number of days in a row at a certain number of hours before you just collapse from physical exhaustion. So you reach maximum pretty quickly. Now, if you’re talking about making good decisions, you don’t max out. And that essentially is where you make more money.”

Is there such a thing as work-life balance? If, so how do you achieve it? I caught up with AgriFocused’s Carmen Quade recently who shares some of her insights into some of the simple things you can do right now to get the balance more in your favour.

Read the blog on the same topic: https://agrifocused.com.au/why-is-work-life-balance-so-hard/

About Carmen

Carmen Quade runs AgriFocused, a training business specialising in farm business skills. She has worked as a University lecturer in Accounting and Agribusiness and enjoys working with people to improve their business skills. She also has extensive experience in Local Government, both in economic and community development as well as corporate governance. Together with her husband and other family members, she is a partner in a mixed farming business at Tallimba, in the Northern Riverina. She works her magic in the office, not the paddock. Carmen holds a Bachelor of Business (Agricultural Commerce), a Master of Professional Accounting and a Cert IV in Training Small Groups.

You can learn more about Carmen by visiting her website: https://agrifocused.com.au/ and following her on X @AgriFocussed or Instagram @AgriFocused

For more in the Planning for Profit series visit: https://www.bcg.org.au/news/?content_type=podcasts

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