Entrepreneurs are all mad!
Am I mad?, are you mad? are we all mad? Maybe not all of us are mad but I do think that there are a growing number of entrepreneurs who could be seen to be mad. Well, that’s the wrong word to...
As an entrepreneur, do you build dreams?
There are only two types of business people I work exclusively with one. I don’t work with professional managers. These are the people who run a business on behalf of the shareholders. I have...
Passion and love
In business you’ll find yourself working longer hours, working harder than before and you’ll never be seeing the volume of ‘stuff’ you need to do decrease. At that point you may look and question...
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...