Book Review: Read this book if you want a playbook to connect with your team to build and deliver your strategy.

Book Review: "You do not rise to the levels of your goals, you sink to the level of your systems" This is the biggest selling book of the last decade on performance

Spend less time on your Goals. "Goals are for people who care about winning once. Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly" James Clear.  "You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems"  This is a brilliant re-frame that has helped me and a number of my clients refocus on what creates genuine progress.  #BusinessPoint   #AtomicHabits   #JamesClear   #ThinkInSystems

Selling your business isn’t just a financial transaction — it’s the final test of your years (or decades) of hard work. But I talk to many business owners who see it much like selling a car: Wait until you want to get rid of it (the worst time to start this process…) take a guess at what price you could get, stick it on a marketplace and hope for the best.  But, unlike selling a car, when it comes to your business: who you sell to can make a huge difference in the valuation.

M&A is often seen as something that only Big Corporates and institutional investors do, and is based on the dark and mysterious art of financial engineering. 

A re-frame of the concept of "People Management"

Sarah Wynn-Williams had a front-row seat in the evolution of Facebook from 2011 – 2017. In the chaos of the Christchurch earthquakes in...

A client dropped this gem on me recently: "You can't steer a parked car." This is a profound truth about progress, decision-making, and generally getting stuff done: you can't adjust your course unless you're already in motion. I love that analogy. It is so easy to get stuck in the inertia of overthinking and planning, with the expectation that we need to solve the whole puzzle before taking action. But the reality is, aiming for the whole solution is the fastest way to stall

As a business owner, the more valuable you make yourself to the daily operations, the less valuable your business becomes. The best time to

All successful athletes employ coaches. Why? Because they are driven to get the very best out of themselves. And the best CEO's and...

For many small business owners, entrepreneurs, startups looking to harness the expertise of seasoned professionals without having to employ them directly, establishing an advisory board can be a highly effective solution. An advisory board, composed of knowledgeable individuals, provides invaluable guidance, insights, and network opportunities for you and your team without the fiduciary responsibilities of a formal Board of Directors. This article aims to equip you with the t

Individual Consultants using AI (GPT-4) to help them on "realistic consulting tasks" were 25% faster and 40% higher quality work than those