You’re Leaving? Let’s Party! Almost exactly a year ago, we ran two of our most loved episodes on “How to Empower Your Team to Step Up” – and you can watch Part One and Part Two. I made a key point in that series about empowering your team members by helping them with their careers – even if...
Don’t Want to Grow?Ignore This! I’ve been in business long enough to remember when websites were optional. It was hardly ‘the good old days’ – we used to spend $20,000 a year on a Yellow Pages ad – but they were simpler times. Of course we’ve all realised that’s no longer the case, but still too...
Over the past 20 years I have helped design and implement more than 1,000 change projects into private enterprise. These are the three tips I give all my clients at the beginning. So if you find that “Project Management Sucks” or “Your Strategy Days are a Waste of Time“, then I hope these are direct...
N E 1 4 10 S? Here is every business owner’s dream: knowing you have the right person, with the right skills, doing the right job, at the right time. I call that ambition “R’n’R” – a play on words that demonstrates how “Roles ‘n’ Responsibilities” gives business owners “Rest ‘n’ Recuperation”. I draw the analogy to playing doubles...
Guinness FactoryAlways In The Black Skip the sentimentality and go straight to the profit conversation and video here. South of the equator, today marks the shortest day of the year; while my Northern Hemisphere friends join the druids at Stonehenge in celebrating the longest stretch of daylight on the calendar. This also means today marks the 21st Anniversary of...
Done With You or DIY There is always enough time, and also there is no time like the present. Especially when you realise that if you have a monthly strategy meeting, you only have 6 left to make changes before the end of the year. Have you begun to achieve what you wanted this year?...