Never Underestimate a Secretary
I think you can guess which member of our team insisted on the not-so-subtle lesson in this joke. Who am I to argue! A large corporation recently hired several cannibals. “You are all part [...]
Why Change is so Important for Business Management
Despite the label “Business Coaching”, working towards performance improvement in business is essentially about facilitating personal change in the people running it. There [...]
How to Stay Awake in Meetings
Do you keep falling asleep in strategy and team meetings? At workshops and seminars? How about during those long and boring conference calls? Here’s a Way to Change All of That Before (or [...]
Free Enterprise – Literally
(From the Bristol Evening Post): Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite [...]
The 5 Stages of Decline in Business Management
The author of one of the all-time Great Business Books (Good to Great) has done it again. Jim Collins has now looked at how and why even the best companies can crash and burn, and he provides [...]
Rules for Surviving Anything in Business
It’s interesting to watch the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and see that my clients in small and medium businesses are doing better than “OK”. Apart from those in retail, [...]
Company Director Responsibilities
Are You A Company Director? Many of even the smallest businesses these days organise themselves as an incorporated entity – usually a proprietary limited company – and appoint [...]
On the Lighter Side
Last week a friend of mine went to a seminar called “Stress and Disease” by Dr. Nickolas Hall, an expert in psychobiology. He gave an example of a coping skill for job stress that I [...]
Engaging Your Staff for Better Business Management
Employing people only fills your ranks; engaging people is what fills your banks. As a leader, you have a moral responsibility to engage your team; as a manager you have a commercial imperative [...]
Productivity – A Path to Profit
Leaving aside profits from outside investments, there are only four ways in which you can increase your profits: The Four Profit Basics 1.Increase your Sales Revenue 2.Decrease your Cost of Sales [...]
