Leadership
Ending the Year Well
The Most Important Work You’ll Do This Christmas As this year draws to a close and as this is my last article until January, I want to take a moment to wish you a genuinely Merry Christmas and a Happy Read more
Leadership
Why Wouldn’t You Want to Grow?
This always confuses me. Yet I hear it all the time. “Oh, I wouldn’t want to get much bigger.”“I don’t want to grow much more.”“We’re fine as we are.” Whenever someone says it, I always pause—because it’s confusing. These are Read more
Finance
Why We Need to Look a Little Deeper:
Revenue, Profit and the Reality of Cashflow We’ve all heard the phrase “Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cashflow is king.” Most business owners nod along, repeat it to their teams, and then quietly go back to obsessing over Read more
Leadership
Why Failure Is the Best Teacher You’ll Ever Have
What Success Doesn’t Teach People talk about failure like it’s something to avoid at all costs. In business especially, we’re trained to fear it, hide it, deny it, or dress it up as something else. But here’s the truth I’ve Read more
Leadership
Why Everyone in Your Business Is a Profit Centre
And Why Seeing Them That Way Changes Everything One of the most powerful shifts any business owner can make is to stop seeing people as costs and start seeing them as profit centres. And I don’t just mean fee-earners. I Read more
Focus
Ai & the Brain
What Your Brain Can do That Ai can’t – Yet I was learning about Ai the other day and the presenter, Arthur C. Brooks, a behavioural scientist, author, and Professor Harvard Business School, made a really good point about how out Read more
Leadership
Why understanding your weaknesses is key to boosting performance:
Knowing where you are week gives you incredible strength When running a business profitability and growth are fundamental to longevity, one of the most powerful realisations you can have is the understanding of your business’s weak points. Yes, you heard Read more
Leadership
Why Bother with a Business if…
You Don’t Want to Run a Business? I speak to quite a lot of business owners who tell me they don’t really like the business side of things, they like doing whatever it is the business does, Joinery, Construction, Engineering, Read more
Leadership
Have You Got It Wrong
What Beliefs Hold You Back Money is the root of all evil, the customer is always right and a jack of all trades in master of none, you have heard them right, and most of you believe them to be Read more
Finance
Worried About Cash Flow?
What You Can Do to Make it Better When you’re a business owner, cash flow isn’t just a financial term—it’s the lifeblood of your enterprise. It’s the pulse that keeps your business alive and thriving. Without it your business will Read more