Official confirmation of recession, tax raises and spending cuts. Doom and gloom 24×7 on the news. Here’s my take on what it means for us as SME business owners. Context This is not the first recession, and it won’t be the last. Sometimes they’ve hurt a little, sometimes a lot, sometimes not at all. Depends […]
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Getting ready for Next Year
New year round the corner, recession in the works, and a burgeoning need for our businesses to step up and meet environmental and social goals as they meet their commercial ones. Who said running a business was easy? Here’s what I’d look at: *FIRST*Make sure your business-as-usual is working well. You will not be able […]
Does your business need great people or great processes?
Most businesses I come across, especially in the SME world, are either trying hard to get a bunch of processes in place or are living in shame because they’re not! And the ones trying to get processes in place, for a variety of avoidable reasons are usually doing so without great or sustained success. There […]
The effective leadership team’s superpower…
… is discipline. Sure, being human, having vision, empathy, clarity, and so on – all of these are essential. But the place I’ve seen more SMEs fail to live up to their potential is a lack of discipline. Simply not doing what they say they’re going to do. I recently worked with a number of […]
Bad news may sell. But it doesn’t make things better.
What do you do if the prevailing business “sense” is very clearly saying one thing, yet your values and what the world needs are in diametric opposition to this? That’s the dilemma that faced my Karmic Capitalist guest on this week’s podcast, Seán Wood, CEO of Positive News. “Bad news sells”. We hear this mantra […]