Have you set any New Year’s resolutions that would actually make your life better? Not the vague ones. Not the recycled promises. I mean the kind that would genuinely change how you feel about your work, your time, your health, or your future. Because here’s the uncomfortable truth: most New Read more
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 New Year. But more than that, I want to invite Read more
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 business owners who work incredibly hard. They’ve taken risks, invested Read more
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