Mastering the Art of Focus: A Blueprint for Business Success
In the ever-evolving landscape of business, leaders and entrepreneurs often grapple with the dilemma of expansion versus specialisation. The instinct might push towards diversification—more products, features, and markets—as the pathway to growth and success. However, this strategy often leads to a dilution of quality and effectiveness, due to the finite nature of resources and time. […]
Top 5 Trends for Business Leaders in 2024
The ability to predict the future of work is notoriously challenging, especially against the backdrop of recent global upheavals, including the pandemic and economic fluctuations. Business leaders worldwide must understand and prepare for the significant shifts that are shaping the business landscape. Here are the five key trends set to influence the business environment in […]
The common mistakes leaders make when developing a business strategy
Having run strategy sessions for businesses of all types and sizes, from early-stage startups to high growth companies, I have come to realise that creating a solid and effective strategic planning process is challenging, and few companies get it right. Based on my experience, here are the top five mistakes that companies commonly make when […]
How to massively improve the value of your business….
If you own a business, you’ll know what a tough but rewarding experience it is. It affords you the opportunity to achieve 2 things in life: Change the world in your own unique way, set and deliver on your own Purpose, and create a culture based around your held beliefs and values. Be financially well-rewarded, […]
Are you dying of indigestion or starvation?
Businesses are more likely to die of indigestion (overeating) than starvation. In startup mode, businesses are often big eater’s. They want to do and try everything. In scale-up mode, that type of over-eating can be dangerous and waste your team’s time. So, how do you control your appetite? I recommend using a document called PSPOT, […]
Insightful questions for high growth companies
Whether we’re conscious of it or not, every management decision is motivated by a desire to find answers to very specific questions. People who succeed in organisations or business tend to be problem solvers. They have to be, because the business environment is becoming increasingly complex. But all solutions start with insightful questions. Below I […]
The Key to Growth
The key to growth is rarely found in finding the “right” answer. Answers change because the environment changes. Charles Darwin is famous for his theory of Survival of the Fittest. What is interesting is his definition of “fittest.” It is not the biggest, fastest, strongest or smartest…. it is the most adaptable. It turns out […]
How to develop your strategy
I often come across companies that make strategy much harder than it needs to be. For some, the problem is that they focus too much on the latest strategy tools: SWOT analysis, customer analysis, competitor analysis, financial modelling, etc. Other people struggle because they think it’s all about the broad, conceptual, big picture stuff but […]
Staying Focused on a Great Strategy
Strategy is an overused and often misunderstood word. Yet a strategy, when properly understood and implemented, focuses the team on a core problem and gives you a framework to prioritise limited resources. Think of when you are hammering a nail: when you hit the nail on its head, you focus all the force of the […]
The decisions all Managing Directors must own….
Managing Directors face countless decisions. The best executives understand which ones they need to focus on and which ones they can delegate. While the obvious decisions that Managing Directors need to get right involve strategy, too many executives delegate away three key decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people. […]
