Your team meets weekly. Talks endlessly. Produces mediocrity. You’ve tried team-building exercises. Motivational speakers. Open-plan offices designed to spark collaboration. Yet something fundamental remains broken. The gap between average teams and elite performers isn’t about personality compatibility or shared coffee breaks. Research reveals a systematic…
Eighty percent of businesses die within five years. The killer? Poor cash flow management. You might think you understand money. You see numbers in your account and assume you can spend them. But that assumption destroys more businesses than bad products or weak marketing ever…
I still remember the smell of popcorn and sawdust, the bright lights cutting through the circus tent’s darkness, and the collective gasp of the audience as the plate spinner took centre stage. Watch the plates spin faster. As a child, I was mesmerised. The circus…
Most business owners plan to sell their company as their retirement strategy. The reality is brutal. Only 20% of businesses actually complete a sale. The other 80% sit on the market, gathering dust while owners watch their dreams of a profitable exit evaporate. You might…
Walk through any business park , industrial estate or town, and you’ll see them everywhere. The restaurant owner pulling 80-hour weeks. The consultant who hasn’t taken a real holiday in three years. The shop owner who’s there every single day, keys in hand, first to…
Why the smartest marketing move might not be what you think Every business wants more leads. It’s the go-to request from owners and directors: “We need more enquiries.” “Get the phones ringing.” “Double our website traffic.” And fair enough. Leads matter. Without them, there’s no…
If you’re a business owner, chances are you’ve faced imposter syndrome, whether you had the name for it or not. It’s that internal voice that whispers: “You don’t really know what you’re doing.”“You’re not qualified to lead this business.”“Sooner or later, someone will find you…
That quote, attributed to Peter Drucker, has been cited in boardrooms and business books so often that it’s practically a cliché. But here’s the thing: it’s still true. And it goes hand in hand with another favourite of mine: “Measuring things leads to the process…
Why Mindset Isn’t Just Fluffy Nonsense You’ve probably heard it before: Be × Do = Have. It gets thrown around in personal development circles a lot. But before you roll your eyes and click away thinking this is just another “believe and achieve” fluff piece,…
Running a business means making tough decisions. But too often, it also means avoiding tough conversations. And the longer you dodge them, the more they cost you: in time, energy, performance, and profit. We tell ourselves stories to justify the avoidance: “Now’s not the right…
