Every business must have a board. If you’re a private company, this could be made up of just one director, typically the owner or founder. But if you want to scale and make the business more investable, or sell the…
Can shorter meetings be more productive? Can shorter meetings be more productive? Michael O’Neill, when manager of Northern Ireland, once told me that his team members had different levels of concentration. Due to this fact he felt that it was…
“Wouldn’t it be great if all our salespeople performed like Diane or Patrick. Let’s put them in charge of the sales team.” Why is it when a business is looking for a Sales Manager they look within their own ranks…
Am I the luckiest guy you know? 30 years ago I had my kidney removed. I was playing football and a guy from the opposition purposely jumped into me and lodged his knee in my stomach resulting in me being…
Success can be achieved by keeping it simple and consistent without it consuming your day I recommend that you assign some time to LinkedIn on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in order to increase your levels of success. Before…
I’m unsure of the origination of this story but it serves as a good lesson. The donkey told the tiger, “The grass is blue.” The tiger replied, “No, the grass is green.” The discussion became heated, and the two decided…
Approximately 10% of the global workforce is termed to be “Workplace Prisoners” – actively disengaged employees who normally have little positive to say about their company behind closed doors. Normally they have no desire to leave the business or they…
The dynamic change and competition impacting every industry demands those with leadership responsibilities to take advantage of all of their resources, including those outside of their own operations and scope of knowledge. Engaging consultants leverages a lot of folks’ knowledge…
If you had of asked me a few years ago about implementing a 4-day week in business I would have snarled, said it wouldn’t work in our business and anyway, sure no business could afford that! Let’s move on a…