Have you ever felt that you’re in a role where you don’t belong? Or that you’re in a position now to craft your own role where you can follow your passions and control your decisions?
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For growth, we need our ‘pivot foot’, our current customer base, to help us grow.
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Successful business leaders are always guided by a vision of their. As a leader you must build a vision that blends your passion, beliefs and values. This will keep you on course, focused and motivates your team.
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As an owner of a growing business, one of the greatest challenges can be delegating. Afterall you started the business, you know how best to do things and you want everyone to do the things the way you do, right?
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Most of us dream about being successful and achieving our goals, whether that’s on a business or personal level. It might be, for example, that you’ve set your sights on running a thriving business, driving a prestige car, owning a lovely home, or something more physical like climbing to base camp at Mount Everest
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Stress is a word commonly used but often misunderstood, certainly often under estimated in its detrimental impact on both our physical and mental health.
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There are always more sellers in a recession; people that want out, are fed up with it all, are just at the right age to enjoy retirement and so on. Their reasons are numerous, but find them at the right time and for the buyer, there lies the opportunity.
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If personal development is a process of self-improvement, then I would argue that when it comes to personal development, the most important thing you can do is to find ways to look after your own well-being. And well-being – both physical and mental – is certainly something that we are all becoming more aware of.
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Wherever you turn today business owners, leaders, social media channels, books, blogs and entrepreneurs talk about business models. It is a trendy term thrown around by so many and to such an extent that the power of a business model seems forgotten.
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Things have been tough recently, we’ll make no bones about it, but if the answer to our title question is a resounding yes, or even just a maybe, this is an exciting time. And regardless of whether you’re a get-it-all-down-in-Excel person, or are happy just to jot things on a piece of paper, your mind is no doubt buzzing with all sorts of ideas and questions.
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Strategy can be a scary word for a small business. However, having a clear strategy for the direction of your business can help you make clear decisions about where you want your business to be.
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Many business owners only start to think about the true value of their business as they approach retirement and begin to explore the possibilities of selling their company. But what they tend to find out is that the things that add value to the business are the very things that help grow a business successfully.
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When I first went self-employed, some eight and a half years ago now, one of the pitfalls I hadn’t planned for was how to make effective decisions.
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