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In the second part of these posts about Greiner’s growth model I am going to cover the signs that show you in each of the six phases of growth that your business is getting to the end of that phase and the crises are developing. I will share with you Greiner’s...

I’m often asked by business owners how they can grow their business and I always advise them that the first step, before I can answer that question is to understand just what phase they are in their business growth. I almost always go back to a model I have used many...

I read a very good piece over the weekend by Richard Harroch. It was a thirty-five-step approach to starting a business and it contained a great deal of very good information. At number four Richard included this. Focus on Building a Great Product—But Don’t Take...

Would be entrepreneurs who have failed to get their business off the ground are an interesting breed. My definition of an entrepreneur by the way is someone who has tried or succeeded in building a business that bootstraps or raises funds and employs others. Sole...

A recent paper by EY that I received today contained some interesting information. Or at least it was interesting to me, and I think should be to you as well. The paper was talking about consumer behaviour, especially amongst the millennial generation (born 1981 –...

When the UK Government announced that the “work from home” directive was being lifted there were as many groans as there were cheers it seems. Some would have us believe that the great resignation is being triggered by the pressure some employers are placing on their...

Are you a leader who wears a mask for most of your working life? I’m not talking about the kind we have all been sporting during the pandemic. I’m talking about the one that we feel we must wear all our lives, and is shown to us first at school, where we first put it...

One of the beauties of being an investor and advisor to companies is the inside look you get at the way they work and the technology they use or build. In the last two weeks I spent some truly educational time with my friends at Fact360 and with a totally different...

It’s true confession time. I really didn’t enjoy school between the ages of eleven and sixteen. I loved my friends, I really enjoyed playing football and cricket, but I was bored. So much so that a boy who at eleven years old, who had been told he should be heading...

Are you the type of person who wakes up each day and thinks “ I have to go and do THAT again”. I was, even though I liked every job I did, it was simply the fact that I HAD to do it because I was contracted to do so that bothered me. I’m a person that if I must do...