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 […]
Did you follow Leicester City and their progress to the number one spot in the Premier League? Did you wonder if your business could achieve a similar coup? Have your business results been in the same league …. or is it time to show exactly what your company is capable of? Like many women I […]
Is it time to make faster business progress? Could your leadership actually be part of the problem? Have you had enough of mediocre results or peaks and troughs that make it so hard to move forward? Recently, I have met a startling number of business people who are tearing their hair out because the leadership […]
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 […]
One sad comment I hear over and over again from disappointed employees is “The company I work for is just bobbing along going nowhere”. What a waste. That man or woman was once a child with stars in his eyes and dreams of all the wonderful things he would be a part of achieving. It’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
