Robert’s Rules of Order
In the last 9 months I have been involved in a number of political (small p) meetings where Robert’s Rules of Order have been applied. Whilst I have been to […]
The Flip Side of Passion
Can you remember having to do your job with one hand tied behind your back? I bet it was one of the reasons you chose to ‘go it alone’? Run […]
The Perfect Storm – Storytelling #2
Christmas 1997, I helicoptered into the best year of Excel Clothing’s 10 year history. Full of excitement at taking on my new role as Managing Director of this successful ladies […]
Create Your Business Vision
The vision statement defines the longer term aspirations for your business. The aspirations should inspire the people you work with, whether that is staff or supplier or investors. It is […]
Business Network Meetings – What’s Your Strategy?
Just imagine if you had a phone call when you were still half asleep telling you the breakfast meeting you were planning to attend that morning was cancelled due to […]
Live Long and Prosper – Financing for Growth
As you get bigger, there are three key elements to managing business growth; the operations, the marketing and the finance. If finance isn’t your thing then recognise when you need […]
The Behaviour that Supports – Leadership
Can you remember the last time when you took off your shoes and socks and stood on the grass, or the beach or the rocks? Do you remember how it […]
Mind the Gap – Recruiting for Business Growth
If you and/or your staff are working long hours, turning down contracts, not following up opportunities, then it may be worth thinking about eliciting some additional help? I have been […]
Be Prepared to Exit – Strategies
At some point you are going to leave your business. Will you sell it and live on a yacht somewhere sunny? Will you retire graceful and leave it to your […]
Make Time for Passion – Management
You can’t make more time. There are only 1440 minutes in every day. Fact – no more, no less. It’s not what you’ve got … it’s what you do with […]
Outsourcing the Way Forward
As a business owners, incorporated or not, in the early growth years we wear many hats, in addition to the technical one that brings the money in and pays the […]
Be your own coach … I don’t think so.
Running a business can be a lonely job – so who do you turn to when you have issues? Do you toss and turn that problem in your head. Do […]
Flawed Boards or Sounding Boards
The credit crunch crisis … Should the directors of the banking institutions have seen it coming? Of course they should! Questioning and recording the question is the right and a […]
Generation WHY?
You can’t tell Generation Y to do something without explaining why. I had no idea how long this idea has been in the public domain but I had never come […]
Making a Millennial Smile – Leadership
Did you know that by 2025 there will be as many Millennials (those born after 2004) in the work place as Baby Boomers (those born between 1945 & 1964)? As […]
Bold Goals
Probably the most famous of Bold Goals has to be JF Kennedy’s landing a man on the moon and returning him to earth safely by the end of the decade. A […]
Shopping Trollies = The State of the Nation – Rant!
One thing that has bothered me in the last … well forever … has been all those that can’t stack their shopping trolly into the right sized trolly in front; […]
Death, Taxes and Childbirth! – Exit Strategies
“… There’s never any convenient time for any of them” – a line from Margaret Mitchell in Gone with the Wind. You might think that since I write about business, […]
Aristotle on Business Values
In my last blog – The Community Footprint – we looked at values as a pivotal to the ethics of your business. The WessexFM story proves that business comes from […]
The Community Footprint with Steve Bulley
One of the first things you need to do when you are looking at your community footprint is to look for your community. What is that, to you, in your business. Wessex […]
Collaborate, Cluster, Collude
This is about establishing a partnering arrangement – aka co-operatives, strategic alliances, joint ventures, teaming Up, collaborations.cluster and/or conspiring … 1. Find the Right Partner In addition to looking for […]
Business Clarity; Business Focus
Whether you think you need a business plan or not, having a clear definition of what you are delivering and how you do that helps with business clarity and focus. […]
Inside the E-Type
A Post-Script on Business Vision. Until recently I had never recognised my intuition or gut feelings. This is because I was born an ‘analytic’. I learned to be ‘dynamic’ […]
Excited by your Vision?
Question – Are you still excited by the vision for your business? It’s a big question that has plagued me personally, in the last three months. It has been an […]
Best Laid Plans and all That!
I have had the most brilliant January having announced my going solo and receiving tremendous applause from my client base. Thank you – I love you too! And just about […]
If you don’t ask …
If you don’t ask …You don’t get; won’t get but more importantly in business if your business connections don’t know what you want, you can’t possibly get. Rudyard Kipling oft […]
The Doughnut Principle
According to Tori Amos; “You’ll never gain weight from a doughnut hole” I think this is something that Charles Handy would not only smile at but probably concur. In his book, […]
The Road to Gelidonya
Yassassin is Turkish for ‘have a long life’ this Bowie tune works really well with the following story. There is a lighthouse at Gelidonya on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey […]
Decisions; Decisions
A couple of questions to get you thinking: What was the worst business decision you ever made? What did it cost you? And what was the best business decision you […]
A Perfect Leading Question!
Hands up how many people think Health & Safety is just common sense and is over regulated? How many think common sense is a paradox – it’s not as common as […]
Two Tribes go to War – Personal Musings
Over the last year, I’ve taken to writing myself letters. I am heading into a time of life that I flippantly refer to as the mental pause. This has something […]
