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Albert Einstein said “ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
When you apply this to business you can see how much sense it makes.
I’ve coached company owners who keep doing what they’ve always done. And often the reason they continue to do the […]

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I checked Tinu Abayomi-Paul’s blog where she’d written 11 ways to piss off bloggers. I caught up with her on Twitter and half jokingly suggested we should do eleven things what pisses off Twitterers. Tinu suggested we do half each, so here’s my 5 and a half.

People who join Twitter and simply spend their […]

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Leadership is absolutely vital when a company begins life coaching. The top management of a company must get behind their investment in life coaching and take the actions that their coach agrees with them.
I used to take the view that business coaching was all about business. However, as I’ve continued to coach people I’ve […]

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I’ve just been looking at a question on one of the business forums.
It went a bit like this…
I’ve had a web site up for a month and I’ve no sales. What’s the problem?

The questioner runs a pet store that concentrates on dogs, cats and smaller pets, like hamsters and also does a nice line […]

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Recession proof, a video that shows what can be achieved

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The Wrong Time Management Analogy
I’m sure you’ve heard of that nice little time management analogy which represents a large pickle jar as the time you have available in a day and then asks how you’d get a bunch of rocks, pebbles, sand and some water into that one jar without it all overflowing. […]

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On the popular GrokDotCom they’ve commented on a piece of research that shows e-commerce is still too complicated. Not just for the over 65’s but for everyone pretty much equally.
If it’s too complicated people will leave the site rather than confuse their brain cells further.
So in the interests of improving web sites sales here’s […]

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Credit crunches come and go and have different names like Black Monday, Black Wednesday, South Sea Bubble, Dot Com Bubble, The Great Depression and many others.
And yet businesses keep rolling on. The reality is that customers are still there. The further reality is that they still need or want the goods and services that […]

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So it’s happened at the last the iconic founder of Microsoft leaves the company he developed into the global giant it now is.
Many people are Microsoft haters and yet I would credit Microsoft with creating the PC world as we know it. PCs are cheap with a plentiful choice compared to when Bill […]

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Everyone knows that social media sites like MySpace, Bebo and Facebook collect a large number of people to their sites. And lots of Internet marketers claim to be making vast amounts of money from them.
This Social Media Article from the New York Times shows that the social media sites themselves are not making as […]

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So now we’ve got the result we wanted from the Apprentice. A winner! Was it the one we wanted… And was the hiring fair? See what you think.

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Unusually Sir Alan only fired one candidate after the interviews with his gang of 4 (augmented by Karen Brady). That leaves 4 Apprentice candidates to fight to the death in the final.

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I’ve been coaching a client who has a product that almost everyone needs. She is competing with a number of other providers in her area. One of those has been established about 12 years longer than her business and has built up a set of loyal clients.
The issue is that my coaching client has […]

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Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentices try to sell experiences in some of the world’s most coveted supercars. Do they succeed? And more to the point who went home after the task?

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Business owners and leaders often have a different view of marketing from the one that I do.
Many look upon marketing as a cost centre that needs to be ruthlessly managed to reduce the extravagance of their staff who’ve been press-ganged into a marketing role.
Others have a very simplistic view, which is that marketing is […]

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The Apprentices create an advertising campaign for tissues with interesting results. The net result is a surprising firing.

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Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentices are let loose at the NEC Wedding Expo to sell wedding dresses. Someone got fired. Was the firing fair? It’s easy to decide with the benefit of hindsight - that doesn’t mean it’s less fun though!

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Executive coaching can be the key that unlocks the door to a company’s greater profits.
Maybe as an executive coach I’m a little biased! Or maybe it’s a result of a little knowledge…
An interesting study was conducted by Metrix Global, a survey company, on behalf of a US Fortune 500 company and the executive coaching […]

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Your company has been swimming along minding its own business when whammo!
Something happens to throw it off course and slip from making a slight profit to haemorrhaging money at a rate that looks as though it can never end.
If it’s a physical challenge like an earthquake, flood or fire you should already have plans […]

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