When sustainability is implemented correctly, it often generates positive results for companies such as reduced costs, increased sales, higher customer loyalty, and attracting talent.
31.07.2023
Running a startup is notoriously fast-paced, highly stressful and time consuming, with heavy workloads throughout the year for both you and your team. As chief decision-maker and captain of the ship, it’s difficult for startup leaders to fully step back from their responsibilities and hand over the reins to their teams so they can take a proper break over the summer months.
24.07.2023
Everyone has a sense of humour. Some people just aren’t funny, surely? But I’m not talking about telling jokes - rather those impromptu moments, where we share our human frailty or laugh at life’s absurdities or see another perspective. Laughing with people is an ancient way to connect.
17.07.2023
Assembling an effective leadership team can feel like an exercise in managing paradoxes. To be deemed suitable for the leadership team, individuals need to be ambitious, highly confident, and strong individual performers.
10.07.2023
The impact of Artificial Intelligence on businesses is on many entrepreneurs’ minds. The technological advances of AI have irrevocably changed the way we work – but for better or worse?
26.06.2023
With its intricate maze of challenges and fierce competition, the marketplace can seem formidable at first glance, especially for small, creative brands just starting their journey. Having long established their dominance, towering multinational corporations command the landscape with their vast resources and global reach. This can often cast an overwhelming shadow on smaller brands attempting to make their presence felt and secure a slice of the market.
20.06.2023
Everyone knows that people make mistakes. In fact, when we console someone for slipping up we often remind them ‘you’re only human’. In other words, we see fallibility as integral to being a person. Perhaps this is why we think of machines very differently. Whether it’s a Google search or question posed to Siri, we tend to trust the information technological tools give us. They have access to more data than we do, after all, so we assume that means they’re correct.
19.06.2023
Very early on in my experience teaching and consulting to creative companies and arts organisations, I identified a three-part framework to invent and explore new ideas within a team dynamic: ideate, evaluate, select.
12.06.2023
The field of neuroscience has provided us with a wealth of knowledge about how the brain functions, and this knowledge can be applied not only to our everyday lives but to our personal and team performance. What makes this exciting is that now more than ever, we have access to easily applicable tools that can make an impact in our performance almost immediately.
29.04.2023
It’s been three years since Covid threw the world into turmoil and since then we have faced a series of further economic, environmental and political shocks that have tested our businesses’ resilience.
13.04.2023
Mergers and acquisitions are the only sure fire way I know to double the size of your business in an afternoon. By selling companies you can create meaningful wealth that gives you choices in life, that allows you to go where you want, with whom you want, and do the things you want.
10.04.2023
There was once a man who worked in the corporate world. Although he was very successful, he was fed up with his job. He hated the company culture, the long hours and the long daily commute So, one day he decided to become an entrepreneur and set up his own business. After a couple of years of consistent hard work, his business began to succeed. However, his personal life did not. His marriage began to fail, and he got divorce. This ruined him financially and so he had to start his business over again.
27.03.2023
If you’re looking to reach your full potential and striving for peak performance, here four top hacks from Jim Steele, author of Unashamedly Superhuman.
10.03.2023
Who is it that actually creates and delivers the products the world needs?
Who is it that actually provides the service that the customer enjoys?
Who is it at the end of the phone attending to the demands of a happy, or not so happy, customer?
On whose efforts does your business thrive?
You know the answer, of course, it is “your people”.
11.10.2022