For most of us that time is now. In the recent past the answer was “add value”...now it is about adding RESPECT and RELEVANCE...both deliver understanding. The challenge is that it takes time and a relationship to develop these. Not over-night, not without commitment...and certainly not without Time...and building the relationship. And the news is, [...]
As an advisor, my challenge has always been to separate out…read, try and avoid..... the hobbyists that call themselves business people…and focus on business leaders. Hobbyists are the ultimate survivors generally with alternative income streams, almost always without annual matrix around sales, profitability or output. Business leaders do one thing that invariably hobbyists don’t, and [...]
My biggest customer is my biggest competitor! So what am I learning from them, and what are they teaching me? The challenge is how can we continue to surprise and engage our best clients and customers? Where should you go for answers… Your team is in touch with those clients on a daily basis, they’ll [...]
If you’re making mistakes, if you’re creating mistakes, if you’re evolving mistakes then you are growing and changing and building. We see companies and organisations and teams that are fearful and threatened by errors and the only thing we can guarantee is that those teams will actually change culturally to embrace creativity (and therefore errors) [...]
If results are going to be based on deliverables then are you “thinking enough” about what your deliverables can be and when you compare those to the market place, where are your real advantages, real opportunities, or the real reduction of risk that is going to allow you to gain new clients. Same old, same [...]
Excuse me…what do you really want? And are the resources that you’re putting in to achieving these results capable of delivering them? But before you even ask that, what will the market accept from you, new or old, engaged
Reality bears down on us all. In searching for results, it is about understanding the current market place, as well as the future market place and as soon as you start talking future you start talking new competitors
That heading underrates the gratitude I have for Shirley Dalton from Dalton Business Systems…mentor, commentator, advisor and more. In a recent blog, she raised the bar in the discussion that faces all business people right now anywhere in the world
For most of us that time is now. In the recent past the answer was “add value”...now it is about adding RESPECT and RELEVANCE...both deliver understanding. The challenge is that it takes time and a relationship to develop these. Not over-night, not without commitment...and certainly not without Time...and building the relationship. And the news is, [...]
As an advisor, my challenge has always been to separate out…read, try and avoid..... the hobbyists that call themselves business people…and focus on business leaders. Hobbyists are the ultimate survivors generally with alternative income streams, almost always without annual matrix around sales, profitability or output. Business leaders do one thing that invariably hobbyists don’t, and [...]