Last weekend I was at a conference. A very timely reminder of the inspiration you can get from mixing with positive people. If you are in business on your own, even if you have staff, it can be a very lonely place. And whether in business or life in general, when you don’t always see [...]
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You will no doubt be familiar with Sir John Harvey Jones and his reputation as a respected businessman and advisor. Sir John had an elegant secret for deflecting customer interruptions – whilst still making the customers feel as though they were the most important people in the world! When Sir John was Chairman of [...] It is important to realise that we can’t really manage time, time itself is fixed, we can only manage how we use the time that is available to us. Did you know that the average 40 year old man, has 175,000 hours left? That’s it. So every wasted hour is gone, forever, you can never [...] Phone calls to make, e-mails to answers, quotations to get out, outstanding invoices to chase etc etc!! This is the life of a small business owner. Your day is typically filled with all this ‘routine’ and mundane stuff. Where is the time to think of new ideas or creative ways of tackling your problems? And [...] There is one sure way to get what you want in life, but few people actually do it. Put this practice firmly into your day to day business activities and you will have an advantage over the rest of the crowd. Successful people realize their life long dreams by doing things that most people are [...] ……..stands for “Keep it simple, stupid!” The race to put a man on the moon proves that forgetting the KISS formula can waste a great deal of time and money. In the 60s the US spent millions of dollars perfecting a pen with a built in pump to work in zero gravity. The Russians, on [...] There’s an old saying that ‘two heads are better than one’. Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs, managers, and professionals (almost all of us) try to do far too much on their own, by ourselves. By dividing tasks among people who specialize and do them best, we gain efficiency, expertise and power. By out-sourcing to individuals whose talents [...] Every successful business leader has a clear answer to this vital question: Why are you building this company? Who does it serve and what’s your greater purpose? Answering these questions costs you very little, and it can pay huge dividends. And this applies whether you have a business or you are working towards some [...] “In order to increase your net worth you need to increase your network” Do you network to help grow your business? Or even if you don’t have a business as such, do you network to meet new people? It doesn’t have to mean going to endless business lunches. Networking is about building relationships and [...] There is one sure way to get what you want in life, but few people actually do it. Put this practice firmly into your day to day business activities and you will have an advantage over the rest of the crowd. “Successful people realize their life long dreams by doing things that most people are [...] |
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