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 the wrong numbers. It’s a great saying, but unless we Read more
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 learned working with leaders for over two decades: Failure is Read more
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 mean everyone. Because when you really understand how a business Read more
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 brains work and what Ai can and can’t currently do Read more
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 me right! Embracing and gaining clarity about your weaknesses is Read more
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, Recruitment, financial service etc. But not running the business. When Read more
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 true, and when we believe things to be true we Read more
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 die, this is why so many business owners worry about Read more
First let’s be clear, everyone no matter how successful sometimes feels stuck. It’s like being in a car that’s run out of fuel. We want to move forward, yet something holds us back. There are always reasons for this, and they are nearly always rooted in our psychology, in how Read more
Because it’s Not OK I would imagine that a lot of people in my space who do what I do, do it for very similar reasons. Because we’ve been there, we know how hard it is to run a small business. I know how hard it is to be the Read more