April 28th, 2024
Faris Aranki
Your relationship to food and exercise is an often-forgotten part of running a small business and this has massive implications for your weight The scales never lie I’ve never been a skinny person. As a kid, I was what would politely be called “cuddly”. At my peak I must have weighed close to 120kg and had a 46 […]
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April 27th, 2024
Doug Thorpe
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April 22nd, 2024
Doug Thorpe
As businesses across the globe begin to ponder their choices for reopening in a post-COVID-19 world, people will be faced with choices. While governmental restrictions dictate some of those choices, it appears all other choices will be left up to the owner/manager. Are you ready to take a chance? The choices will involve taking chances. […]
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April 19th, 2024
Faris Aranki
How to get teams to gel quickly — harsh lessons from holidays with loose connections that holds the answer If only there was more love in teams and that everyone was more nice “There are 8 of us all nominally at the same level and we’re all senior but it is a total car crash. Nobody trusts each other […]
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April 12th, 2024
Doug Thorpe
In today’s complex business world, change is hard. Companies venturing through major culture shifts, mergers or other forms of change often struggle to make it to the end. The idea that people hate change is a phenomenon that is taught, coached and wrestled with in many ways, shapes, and forms. Regardless of your mindset about […]
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April 6th, 2024
Christine Campbell Rapin
Can we get real for a second? Vanity metrics such as likes and comments on social media are not the best measure of the effectiveness of your content marketing. What matters is the number of conversations you are having with your ideal client prospects and the actual client conversions from the offers you are extending. […]
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March 27th, 2024
Doug Thorpe
There’s an old saying in the sales world. “The confused mind says NO.” Clearly that has big implications when trying to sell a product or service. A prospect who gets confused by your sales pitch will revert to a NO answer all the time. On the other hand, a clear, concise explanation of the thing […]
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March 11th, 2024
Doug Thorpe
Company culture. It’s a buzzword thrown around in boardrooms and plastered across job postings. But what exactly is it, and how do you achieve it? There seems to be a common misconception: culture is something you build, a foundation laid from scratch. But a thriving company culture is more akin to a garden – something […]
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March 3rd, 2024
Faris Aranki
Me looking wistful just after I receive a response about an outstanding proposal I love running a start-up; it ticks so many boxes for me such as: the massive improvements to my quality of life, the levels of variety it affords me, the uplift in my independence, the healthy challenge to build something from nothing, […]
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March 1st, 2024
Christine Campbell Rapin
I have a strongly held belief that strategy is NOT the same as strategic planning. Strategy is the roadmap and strategic planning is the packing list for the journey. It’s hard to reach your destination if you don’t first know where you want to go.🎯 So let me share a secret that all of my […]
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