How do you choose between very different orders? A client received two attractive orders. They are a very different size! Delivery dates overlaped.🔶One is very large and will occupy the majority of their team. They want this in order to grow; they have completed similar orders before.🔸The other is smaller, more challenging, the founder must supervise personally. […]
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Using a 10% increase in key metrics for significant profit. Entrepreneurial business strive to continually increase sales. As a minimum the cost of business inputs increase so in order just to “stand still” revenue must increase. But, did you realize it is possible to work on a 10% increase and convert it to a 72%
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We often hear the debate over how much of what we become in life is the way we are “made” and yet how much is what we are “made into”.I.e. what is inherent characteristics (wiring) and what is influence and external (experience, social influences, environment). My children are perfect examples.They could not be more different
Nature vs. Nurture: The Essence of Thriving in Business? Read More »
An entrepreneur is very proud of the company they created. Justifiably so! It takes significant hard work to build a successful business. But things sometimes go off-track. You can get through! No matter how bad it feels. But get help or support. What got you here will not get you there. You need a fresh
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Business advice given to all entrepreneurs and managers is that business growth is essential. Fast is Best. Do NOT follow it. Do NOT grow fast. It is the worst thing for your business. The advice you receive is usually to serve the interests of investors, someone’s ego, or other ill-guided purposes. Told that the growth needs
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Are you the main entertainer or strategically steering your business? Revenue multiple millions but still you make every decision, pull every string, remove every problem? Are you feeling like chief puppeteer in a game of whack-a-mole? And some days this leaves you wondering if you may be the mole, whacked repeatedly? The show is bigger,
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Does anyone elect to impose blinding pain on themselves? In business .. yes! Are you a business person that manages exclusively by pain? A large number of entrepreneurs and business owners do not prevent problems. They only react when problems indicate catastrophe.* Delay having difficult conversations with problem employees.* Delay putting systems and plans in
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Turnaround … what a crazy idea? To say a person, or business, turns around sounds like “going back towards where you started”. If you turnaround on a road you return in the direction you came from. The Oxford dictionary defines a turnaround as “an abrupt or unexpected change, especially one that results in a more
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Every successful business has good times and bad. Cycles. How do you handle the heat? I like some element of heat. I work in the heat frequently. But the cool down is where the value then pays dividends. I am referring to heat, challenges, frustrations, hard times in your business. Revenue increase but profit decrease? Higher
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”Charles Darwin We hear the statistics … the majority of companies fail (or just give up) within three to five years of incorporation. Cash flow takes companies out of business in most cases. In a
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