Thoughts on Strategy

The recession doesn’t own your response

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…

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…
“We create wealth on Capitalist principles and distribute it on Marxist ones”

“We create wealth on Capitalist principles and distribute it on Marxist ones”

“Create wealth like a Capitalist, distribute it like a Marxist.” Here’s what that looks like… Simon Biltcliffe believes that Capitalism is a great way to create wealth, but is terrible…

Empowerment and Response in a Time of Recession and Volatility

It’s tough to make decisions and run a business with the volatility we’ve got going on around us, but there’s one business priority at the highest level which I think…

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…

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