Business mentoring tip #77 – The leader versus manager debate…
In my last tip I was pretty tough on us entrepreneurial types, stating boldly that if our employees were under performing it was our fault not theirs. I do believe this is true in very many cases,...
View ArticleBusiness Mentor tip #79 – If Apollo 11 can be 97.5% off course, so can you…
You will know by now (if you’ve been reading my blogs or regular column in NZ Business Magazine; attending my talks or just following my random comments on Facebook or Twitter) that I am a dedicated...
View ArticleThe best testimonial ever!
One of my last online members raced through the programme in record time and sent me an email to tell me how he’d found it. If you haven’t done it and ever wondered what its about… read on. Brynn...
View ArticleBusiness mentor tip #83 – Subscribe to the concept of leverage
At the end of each year you should be working less in your business than you were at the end of the year before. This objective is something that’s missing in typical business plans...
View ArticleA business or a life-long job? Which is it for you?
Here’s another extract from my book… to be launched late July… A business or a life-long job? ‘Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to...
View ArticleListen to the brand guys… and change the name of your book!
So the book is written… yes, it’s finished and off to proof reading next week. Yipee! One year and two months in the making. That’s approximately three hundred 5 am starts, 70,000 words and a heck...
View ArticleWhat’s the one question every business owner should ask to decrease owner...
When I interviewed 2012 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Sam Hazledene, I asked him about his strategy for growth. This is the guy who built the largest medical recruitment company in Australasia from...
View ArticleWhy the best business people fail… and how you can be a successful failure too
You might think failure doesn’t enter the vocabulary of successful people. But willingness to fail is a key criterion for success. Here’s an unavoidable truth about business – you’re going to fail in...
View ArticleTired of being tired? Here are 3 steps to overcome business fatigue.
I talk with small business owners every day and there are two words I hear all the time: “busy” and “exhausted”. It’s a common ailment of the business owner operator. I’m sure you know how it...
View ArticleWhich is more important… delivery or sales? Should you be in doing or out...
As a small business owner you’ll be familiar with ‘The In-out Dance’ I’m sure. It goes like this. You are busy in the business, delivering your service or product, working hard, working hard....
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