Simple is easy to say, hard to do, but gets profitable results. What can you simplify today? Most often in business we focus on what we c…
Simple is easy to say, hard to do, but gets profitable results. What can you simplify today? Most often in business we focus on what we c…
Have you ever been tempted to lower your prices to win new customers? Go on, be honest, you have haven’t you? And why not? It’s a popular…
Having large businesses as clients can be great for a (relatively) small business. Not least because big business can give you a decent flow…
With less than 100 days of 2012 to go, will you finish the year as you hoped when it started? There are less than 100 days to go until t…
I was having coffee with a CEO (let’s call him James) the other day and he showed me his business’s ‘to-do’ list. It was 35 pages long and e…
Peter Drucker gave us the famous phrase, “What gets measured gets done”. And isn’t it true? Never mind in business, it works in life. Wan…
Hmm, how much work do you do each week? Real work, that is. Work that Matters. And what about your team? How much do they do? It would be…
There is a wonderful quote by Albert Einstein in which he says: “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that …
When you look at your management team, how is it that some people always manage to get their ‘special projects’ done while others just never…
Cast your mind back to when you started your business. Can you remember why you did it? Did it happen to be because the doyens of the indust…
Have you noticed how many well-known entrepreneurs have obsessions? Larry Page at Google has always been obsessed with speed. Steve Jobs…
Businesses get two shots at New Year reinvigoration – the calendar year version and the financial year version. We need this “double …