Profit from success and failure

Whenever we want to move forward it is vital to look back as well.  At the start of a new phase – a new year, a new quarter, a new month a new day- time spent reflecting helps to create bigger changes for the future. Success The first thing to do is to look at...

How to find the Big Idea for a small business.

If you are a small business – or a solo entrepreneur – you may think your big idea is your product or your service. You have spent a long time getting the design right, getting it manufactured, or creating a one off face to face experience that your clients love, or...

Your blog is a gateway to your readers

  Your blog is a gateway to your readers.  They don’t want to get to the gate they want to go through it and have a fantastic journey. In fact they don’t really want the journey at all they just want what they want at the end of it. What is that? The solution to...

Federer match commentary applies to business

As Roger Federer was on the threshold of defeat at Wimbledon yesterday this comment was made on the TV commentary: ” It is no longer about serves, forehands and backhands but about what is going on in the head.” All the tools and techniques can only get...

Advice on “The Apprentice” : focus, focus, focus

Lord Sugar’s advice to Alex the most recent candidate to leave The Apprentice was to focus.   At only 22 this candidate had a lot going for him including his enthusiasm.  But with the end of the competition in sight Lord Sugar is now looking more carefully at...