Whether you run a multi-site business, a small team in a small enterprise or are are working on your own in an office, winning means getting your business strategy right.
How to Convert Your Winning Ideas into Reality
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How Your Mastermind Makes Good Business Great
Mastermind groups, group peer mentoring, are solving issues and supporting each member for many business leaders, Are you in a mastermind group yet?
How to Make Change Fast or Make Change Slow
Transformation can be so large and the prize for success so big that it can be hard for anyone to visualise the whole process. Some fear it is happening too fast, others too slow. Some are advocates seeing the opportunity, others resist seeing only the risks.
Doing business on a walk in the country.
On 21st September 2017 – I’ll be in South Cerney, near Cricklade, with a number of other business owners for a netwalk – a chance to build strong relationships, and gain and give insights to others, over a gentle walk and a pub lunch. Do come and join us, More details here…
Uncertainty, Election(s) Blues and what Business Leaders do next
Elections always lead us to speculate about the future, to see many demons in the darkness, but what should businesses do?
Read moreFar from being a productivity panacea, a collaborative culture will drive your top performers away.
Geoffrey James, Inc.com
Collaboration – A Panacea, or a Route to Mediocrity?
Collaboration needs leadership, and it’s not just about the environment in which it takes place. Indeed, because people move at different speeds the ablest may feel they are picking up an unfair share of the workload. William Buist discusses Geoffrey James article in Inc.com.
Read moreMany of us recognise intellectually that we need others’ knowledge to solve big problems, yet we still lack the motivation to collaborate.
Harvard Business Review
Why Collaboration Feels Like Hard Work…
There’s a lot of confusion about collaboration and a sense, for some, that it can be a panacea for all team issues (and many wider ones). Of course, it can feel like hard work, but I think it’s worth persevering, as long as the journey you are on is the right one. This discusses how you determine if that is the case.
The Journey to Collaboration
Going it alone can’t be the most efficient way to get everything done, and in the long run, it isn’t even the most satisfying. Business collaboration takes time, and effort and energy to make it possible for the essential trust and understanding to develop, but when it’s in place, you do more, in a more aligned way, more sustainably.
