In our businesses, our work and our life, we form many partnerships to achieve outcomes and goals. Some are more formal partnerships than others, but they all represent elements in achieving success. We often don’t give much thought to what…
Anchoring Business Growth
Whatever strategies or actions you may be embarking on to grow your business, they must first be anchored in who you are as a business and what you are seeking to build. It’s easy to come up with a list…
Efficiency Created By The Prospect Of Profit.
I recently came across a quote by an economist that described anyone who did not appreciate how the pursuit of profit incentivised efficiency as being ‘economically illiterate’. A bit unreasonable to tag people as illiterate, but more importantly, a false…
The Art Of Multiplication, And Not Division.
As successful businesses grow and expand into new markets, there can be a tendency to keep everything under the one roof, under the one leadership structure. But often this can stifle the growth of new businesses and new ideas, and…
The Fallacy That Business Growth Means Getting Bigger
In business when you speak about growth its generally assumed that you’re talking about more sales, more profit and just getting bigger. Of course, in some of our new technology businesses, it’s not about profit (yet) but certainly about getting…