How to increase your impact as a business leader now

Do your peers and staff trust you and follow your business leadership? Or are they hesitant to move forward so that progress is slow? Are you frustrated that the business is not aligned, not delivering the results it should be? Is now the time to change all that? Over and over I see business leaders […]

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Why sales and profit die without trust

We all know there’s no single magic key to increase sales and profit successfully in business. So, how is it that some firms increase sales and profit so powerfully, year after year? Is your business doing that? If not, could trust be the missing element? Why profit and sales pass away without trust? I was talking […]

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5 warning signs you are missing massive sales opportunities

I had a fascinating conversation with two businessmen today. They were quite cheeky – though maybe that was me too! One was a salesman. He was passionate about the construction products he sold – an impressive range, from bicycle stands to car park bollards, but he admitted sales were still not as good as he […]

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On pain, business success and becoming unstoppable

Yesterday I met a Managing Director whose company grew at 1% last year. Like most companies today, she thinks that that is all she can expect “in this economy.” Yet she asked “Some companies are growing far faster than that- how do they do it?” I call them the “one percent”. There are businesses out […]

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Silo thinking will stop business growth dead

I have been lucky enough to work for some of the world’s largest companies. It always amazes me how senior management bemoan how their teams work separately, in silos, yet do not realise this problem comes directly from them and kills business growth. It also concerns me that they do not do whatever it takes […]

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Is a business vision essential for success?

In most companies I get to know, their people pull in different directions. Its starts from the leadership team downwards. As a result MD’s ask me “Why are my staff not more committed? Why is productivity not higher?” Businesses do not realize that THE no. 1 thing is to get everyone pulling in the same […]

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