I run a lot, as you can see from my www.fosterRuns.com blog and as such I get through a steady stream of running shoes and other assorted gear. At the point where, early in 2004, I started training for the Berlin marathon, a friend kindly introduced me to Kurt, Fred and Tom at the small specialist . . . → Read More: Small lessons for bigger businesses
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Here are some thoughts carried over from last Christmas that are still valid, so before you kick-back and put your feet up for the winter break, here are a few simple tasks to give you a head-start when you get back in 2010. Clear the decks: If you have a vague lull in work over the . . . → Read More: Last minute pre-Christmas planning Have a relaxing Christmas and a healthy, happy and highly prosperous 2009! You really deserve it… just as soon as you’ve got these last few easy tasks wrapped up! . . . → Read More: Last thoughts before Christmas Those people who have worked with me know that I am not an accountant, but this does not detract from the fact that I am a great advocate of management information. In fact, I am often staggered that businesses, usually smaller ones, have managed to survive at all without it and I would hypothesise that there is a . . . → Read More: Lack of Financial Control As if to underline my post this morning, this article just arrived in my inbox. I had the great double-honour to interview John Moulton on behalf of Stuart Slatter as part of my course on Turnaround Management at London Business School. Moulton is savvy beyond the ken of even gifted businessmen and I heartily recommend heeding . . . → Read More: Weighty agreement In this case we need to ensure our business is ready for the conditions, trimming unnecessary costs and setting strategies in advance of any problems. This requires your attention firmly on your business, on the environment, both internally and externally and on what is happening elsewhere in you industry. . . . → Read More: Approach to Poor Conditions When you glance at your watch for the time, do you look to see where the second-hand is? Sure, it’s more exact and if you were timing a race car it would be essential, but most of us get a sufficiently accurate picture from a glance at the hour-hand. If it’s not where we expect it to be we can always delve further. . . . → Read More: Simple systems  One comment - (Comments are closed)  Planning, Policy  10p tax, making money, Management Information, watch Once you have a list of target prospects and have at least some sense of how your product or service can make their life easier or more enriching, contact needs to be made. . . . → Read More: New Business prospecting: second steps I know. You don’t have time to think, let alone think strategically. But it’s a skill that you can learn and it’s an activity that can add considerable value to your business, so whilst it may not seem Urgent, it falls firmly into the Important quadrant. I have coached teams to brainstorm more effectively in the past, but what . . . → Read More: Strategically planned thinking As companies mature after the often initial flush of success, the range of tasks that the owner manager has to deal with multiplies. Rather than focusing on the underlying need to generate income, which done successfully drives everything else, their attention is diverted by the need to… . . . → Read More: SME owner? Finding it hard to focus? |
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