How to Live Business Values
Mission – Vision – Values… many businesses have done all that to death, but to what avail? The net benefit of all the meetings to agree on the words, the diagrams, the laminated summaries put up around the business and…
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Cluster Boards
Every business must have a high-level decision-making body in place to plot its future success, even very small businesses. For businesses that do have a Board in place, a Board of Management, a Board of Advice or a Senior Management…
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WHAT’S DRIVING YOUR BUSINESS? It’s absolutely necessary to ensure that the forces driving your business are the ‘right’ forces. So it’s necessary to step back and objectively analyse what’s at play. Some forces should NOT be allowed to drive a business…
Deadly Sins of Managers
Following the article “Deadly Sins of Owners” we now turn to the deadly sins of managers. Trying to be like the owner(s). Emulating successful people is a good trait to have … but copying owners is an impure approach to professional…
Deadly Sins of Owners
CATEGORIES: People and Performance, Organisational Success We posted an article previously titled “Why Businesses Fail … It’s The Owner(s)!”. This article lists some deadly sins owners of private businesses make too often, to their own and business detriment. Every rule may…
The Why and How of Trust
CATEGORY: Organisational Success, People and Performance Trust is “being able to have a confident expectation of something”. Trust is at the core of success, giving people the ability to rely on others, what they say and what they are likely…
Quality Organisation
CATEGORY: Organisational Success There are many components to becoming a quality organisation. This article covers some of them. What’s the Purpose of the organisation? Why does the organisation fundamentally exist? An insurance company exists to cover the risks of the community; the…
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CATEGORY: Financial Management, Organisational Success, People & Performance, Planning, Sales & Marketing With broad and rapid change affecting industries and business more than ever before, one crucial aspect to be aware of is the changing roles in business. Some roles…
Why Engage a Qualified Contract Bookkeeper
With all the current hype of software companies promoting that a business owner can do their own bookkeeping or that accountants can do a business owner’s bookkeeping, engaging a well-qualified bookkeeper may seem like an unnecessary expense, but is that…