HOW I Colour Code my Handwriting 🤯 DATELINE: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA G’day Last week I implored you to colour code your diary / calendar / schedule. This week I want to encourage you to go one step further: and colour code all of your notes, whether they’re handwritten or punched into an iPad, Tablet, Laptop etc. Add...

The Simplest Framework for Focus DATELINE: PENANG, MALAYSIA Hey I won’t bore you with the whole “new year, new business” BS, because we all know your January Strategy Day is probably a waste of time. What you need as a business owner is a ridiculously simple and objective framework that you – and your leadership team...

If you’ve been in business for more than five minutes, I can guarantee you’ve had a terrible strategy day experience – all talk, no action, and the highlight of the day was the mediocre muffins at morning tea. You deserve better. Your team and your customers deserve a business that knows where it’s going, and...

The Rhythm Method: Creating Time + Cash for Business Owners Do business challenges differ in different countries? What can we learn from how business is done elsewhere, to improve our business income / wealth / lifestyle outcomes?In my experience having coached privately-owned companies in 12 countries (and spoken at conferences to more), for those 12-96 employee businesses I specialise in the...

You Can’t Spell “SME” without “AI” Don’t tell anyone, but, as I write this from my holiday in the Southern Highlands, I want you to know my dirty little secret: I’m an AI + SME Business Advisor, who’s been talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in business since 2019 … and yet AI is less than...

Core Values Aren’t Good Enough First, I’m alive! Thank you to all the wishers-of-well for my recent Wisdom Teeth surgery – everything went to plan, and I have successfully managed to rest, watch the Godfather Trilogy, and make at least a dozen jokes about the Twitter rebrand.After Blackboard Fridays Episode 6, where I encouraged business owners to...