Business Management

While I’m on the theme of maximising the value within your business for the day when you might wish to sell it, I thought that the following 10 Top Management Tips from an analysis by [...]

I’ve quoted Donald Cooper’s ( www.donaldcooper.com ) excellent newsletter before, and I just had to pass along this idea from one of his recent issues:While speaking at a conference [...]

Focussing on single industries, not diversifying. Jim Collins in his work “Good to Great” observed that the best of companies choose to focus on what they are passionate about, then identify what [...]

There is plenty of talk about “our evolving language” and emails and blogging sure give punctuation a flogging, so I suppose it’s time to ask ourselves, “Is punctuation obsolete?” There may be [...]

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. Anon You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin [...]

In our busy life-styles we can easily become caught up doing things that aren’t satisfying on a deeper level, and that may cause us to lose sight of what we really want to be doing, so [...]

Goodwill To All? As the end of the year rapidly approaches I thought it might be an opportune time to shine a little light on something that some call prayer but I call meditation. Well, here’s a [...]

Crucial Conversations – Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, ISBN 0071401946 “Most books make promises. This one delivers.” [...]

From Spencer Johnson, the “Who Moved My Cheese?” man 🙂 “The most important thing about changing in changing times is to paint a sensible vision – one that makes good sense [...]

Ever thought about how your staff sees you, in terms of your job competence? The following AAP article published on July 12 2007 may be a bit of a wake up to those of use who think that, because [...]