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 […]
Just Listen – Speciality Speeches #2
Uplift the Spirit Objectives: Identify and understand the basic differences between inspirational speeches and other kinds of speeches. Learn how to evaluate audience feeling and develop emotional rapport. Develop a speech style and […]
Why Non-Executive Directors? – Laura McHarrie, The Hidden Edge Ltd
A non-executive director is one appointed to the board who is not affiliated with the company in any other capacity nor is s/he involved in the management of the company. […]
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’ […]
Best Laid Plans! (Six Sentence Story #152)
Josie had planned to catch the 6.10 am ferry service from Hythe to Southampton but she missed it by a minute; the pier train was rattling down the tracks – […]
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 […]
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 […]
Swinging the Lead
An idiom that has some merits perhaps? It describes somebody who avoids work by giving the appearance of toiling but not actually doing anything significant. Its origins are in naval […]
Love Letters – (I Love Feb #3)
I have been thinking about love letters this week; a lot, and wondering if they are a dying art. I wrote and received love letters when I was a teenager […]
Leveraging an objective view of your governance
Free Board Evaluation It is the board’s duties to look after the interests of the shareholders. In a small business the shareholders may be the founders only. However, as the […]
Stuff and Nonsense! – Grammar et al
Stuff and nonsense is an exclamation of incredulity! I think, perhaps that I favour the Aussie alternative of Codswallop. A term derived from a derogatory description for a new craze […]
Five Years
This week sees the fifth anniversary of my working in the same job and for the same company. Don’t misunderstand me; I love doing what I do. I guess this is […]
Oxymora – Grammar
In previous Blogs I have alluded to poetic licence for using language, words and grammatical punctuation for comic or dramatic effect. This week I want to talk about oxymora, the […]
Blog Block
Those of you, avid readers, of my Blog might be wondering if I am on holiday again. Alas no! I have Blog Block. And, of course, as soon as I […]
The Cold War at Work – Rant
Prelude to the Blog: This week has been a one of real highs and real lows. I was at a loss to know what to write about this week for […]
Your Top Twenty Words – Blog Club
Last weekend, challenged by my Blog master to go Blog elsewhere, I, in a roundabout way, found myself on Friends Reunited. It has been six years since I first registered. I […]
Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge 