Why successful business owners choose outside challenge to make better decisions, avoid expensive mistakes and improve faster. Over the years, I’ve worked with businesses ranging from relatively small owner-managed companies to organisations turning over £100 million. Some of the business Read more
Why another email, WhatsApp message or new system won’t solve a problem that needs a conversation. Have you ever walked into a business and seen a notice on the wall telling people to clean up after themselves, put things back Read more
The true cost is often not what you think You might get there on your own. That is not the same as saying you will. And even if you do, the real question is: How long is it going to Read more
One of the best things about running your own business is that you haven’t got a boss. One of the worst things about running your own business is that you haven’t got a boss. Because when things are going well, Read more
I quite often tell my clients that they need to ban the word “cost” from their vocabulary. Because I don’t think anything in your business should be a cost. Everything should be an investment. That might sound like semantics, but Read more
There are some phrases I hear from business owners all the time. “People are difficult.” “Cashflow problems are common in business.” “Nobody cares about the business as much as I do.” “If I don’t do it, it won’t get done Read more
After more than 25 years working with business owners, I’ve learned that business will never be easy. But there are things we can do to make it a little bit easier. I’ve spent more than 25 years working with business Read more
Business is never going to be easy. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept everything that makes it difficult as simply part of owning one. I’ve been making the same joke for years. Just once in my life, purely Read more
Hard work may be part of building a business. But it doesn’t have to be the permanent price of owning one. When you start a business, working hard is often unavoidable. There isn’t anybody else. You’re selling. You’re delivering. You’re Read more
Most business owners expect the first few years to be difficult. What they don’t expect is to still be asking the same question ten or twenty years later. Why is running my business so damn hard? It’s probably a question Read more