You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off…
Did they listen? Anyone and everyone will recall the infamous line by Michael Caine in the Italian job. It’s funny in itself and if you haven’t seen the scene you can watch it here. But it does...
How a Firestarter makes me FILDI…
I’ve recently, well a month ago, come back from a National Entrepreneurs Conference in Birmingham. It was a 2 day event at the ICC with the main hall crammed full of business owners from...
Why aren’t we all working from home today?
Work to live or live to work? Employees now view their jobs as a means to fund their lifestyle more and more. As the lifestyle becomes more important, how can you recruit and retain the best of the...
When you look in the mirror, who do you see looking back at you?
How does the world see you? When you look in a mirror you see what you can see and very often this is not the same as what others see when they look at you. You see, the reflection is you and how...
The secret to more profit….find out who takes up all your time…
On Wednesday I woke up after four hours sleep with a new lease of life. Granted I was grumpy due to a late night but I woke knowing what I had to do to make the future look better. For quite some...
Why you should spend more on your employees…
Companies of all sizes are looking to keep costs as low as possible, cutting superfluous spend, reducing the number of times they buy from within their supply chain, reducing energy consumption,...
Entrepreneurs are just good at solving problems, that’s all…
How to Solve Complex Problems… When you’re facing a complex problem or trying to do something big and bold, the simplest way to solve that problem is to start with a smaller version of the larger...
Business models don’t last forever, so should you innovate or die slowly?
If you own a technology company, you’ll know that you need to continually innovate to stay not just ahead, but alive. Technology changes fast, faster than you think. If you consider the pace of...
Business blunders. Do you give up or dust yourself off and have another crack at it, differently?
I’ve made mistakes, probably like most of you, but I hope, like me, that you’ve learnt from them, applied that learning and won’t find yourself in the same position, making the same mistakes again....
I’d like a bigger carrot please…
Motivation is literally the desire to do things. It’s the difference between waking up before dawn to pound the pavement and lazing around the house all day. It’s the difference between picking up...