Leadership & Development Articles

What answers are you getting? Every business, whether it’s a startup or a well-established company, faces a dynamic set of problems challenges and opportunities. To navigate these effectively, business owners need to continually ask critical questions that help them evaluate their company’s performance, strategise for the future, and make informed decisions. Knowing what question to ask and when to ask it is often a challenge in its own right though, I have always found it Read more…

In All Aspects of Life Decision-making is the cornerstone of success in any sphere of life, be it personal, business, or professional. The essence of making informed and timely decisions transcends the mere act of choosing between options; it is about setting a direction that will lead to your desired outcomes. While change is an inevitable part of life and occurs in a blink of an eye, the process leading up to any change and Read more…

A Problem or a symptom? Maybe it’s that they just have no common sense, are showing a lack of commitment, not doing the job properly, must ask you how to do it every time, can’t think for themselves, are not effective enough, need to be more efficient, or just plain quicker. The top one is my all-time favourite quote from an MD about one of his directors, no matter which, they are all statements made Read more…

The Curse of “I Simply Don’t Have the Time” In today’s business world, being busy is the norm, everyone is busy and the more senior you get the busier it seems you are. Business owners in the sub £10m turnover arena usually top this busy list to the point of overwhelm although its likely every MD and CEO has felt this way at some point. When I ask them why they are so busy and Read more…

Is why it does. A statistic that most entrepreneurs and business owners have heard is that 80% of businesses go bust in their first 5 years and yet knowing that didn’t stop any of them from starting one, this is most likely down to the fact that they are a positive bunch of know it all’s and none of them think this will happen to them. That should be interesting, that 80% go bust and Read more…