by Neil O'Brien | Jun 2, 2017 | management, Our News
When you’re driving at 100+mph and concentrating on the road ahead it is tough to see the warning signs, let alone do anything about the impending issues. I found this out to my peril when all of a sudden the world exploded. Ok, it wasn’t the world exploding, nor was...
by Neil O'Brien | May 26, 2017 | management, Our News, ScaleUp, StartUP
There are many challenges we face as entrepreneurs but the hardest of them all are the challenges of dealing with rapid growth in business. Most entrepreneurs would love skyrocketing revenues, recruitment and training of new a team and the energy and excitement at...
by Neil O'Brien | May 19, 2017 | management, Motivation, Our News
Steven Covey has sold more than 20 million copies of his book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, so with an audience this large, he must have been onto something. In business habits can either be the ‘make’ or ‘break’ or a business, unfortunately, it is often...
by Neil O'Brien | May 12, 2017 | Employees, Individuals, management, Motivation, Our News
Do you ever wake up before your alarm? Not just waking up and rolling over before dozing back off and hitting the snooze button 4 times before crawling out from bed, still half asleep. What I’m talking about is waking up, jumping out of bed with the ideas and energy...
by Neil O'Brien | May 5, 2017 | Employees, management, Motivation, Our News
Following on from our article on building an A-Team we now move onto how to build a high-performance team. Building a high-performance team comes down to just one thing, trust. Special Forces teams are highly effective at what they do because of this one thing, the...
by Neil O'Brien | Apr 28, 2017 | management, Our News, ScaleUp, StartUP
Many people in business are absolutely petrified of sales conversations. It’s the Britishness in us, we’re programmed to be polite, to give more than take, so asking for something is hard, for most at least. But what most people don’t realise is that sales...
