Management training, a reason why it doesn’t work as well as it should.

Apprentices bake up some good results. Still, someone gets fired!

Apprentices down at the beach. And they may as well have stayed there for all the business they drum up. Still after all someone is fired.

The apprentice sell some sausages. I mean how hard can that be. Well, obviously major trauma is involved and one of them gets fired!

Meet the Apprentice gaggle in series 6. A motley bunch as usual, promising exciting and exasperating TV.

Captain America is being filmed in Manchester (UK) as I write. How do I know? Firstly, I live in Manchester and I’ve seen notices tied to lampposts telling me where I can’t park as filming is happening. Secondly I’m getting an amazing number of tweets about Captain America from many of the people who use [...]

Facebook Places is now in the UK and other social networks that are location based must be very worried. One of the first was Gowalla although it seems as though more people know one of its rivals, Foursquare. Foursquare allows users to notify it when they arrive at a location and they can accumulate visits [...]

Business management consulting, business coaching and the people who are highly visible in that market place are getting much more popular. People like Brian Tracy and Jack Canfield and authors like Dale Carnegie and Napoleon Hill must have benefited from the massive rise in Internet searches for their name. And the increase business guru searches [...]

Over the years I’ve discovered a very interesting thing in the businesses I coach. There are some that I work with that can double their growth and others which don’t have a hope of ever reaching anything like 100% growth in a year. And believe me I’ve tried to help those companies that don’t have [...]

How often do you step back and look at your business? I know we’re all guilty of being deeply immersed in the doing of stuff that makes money. That means it can be terribly difficult to put time aside to work on your business. You may be terribly busy, rushed off your feet, going from [...]

I’m lucky enough to be on the mailing list of probably the greatest marketer I’ve ever met, or known. That is Jay Abraham. He’s just released a transcript of an interview he did with Troubleshooter, Sir John Harvey-Jones, in front of a large audience of entrepreneurs. It makes very interesting reading and I thought I’d [...]

Put strategy versus tactics in a boxing ring and strategy gets a knockout every time. That was the thought that ran through my mind as I discussed this very subject with a potential client. And yet that isn’t obvious to an ambitious, or desperate, business owner. Many times a business owner wants to have a [...]

The junior apprentice teams reverted back to boys (Instinct) against girls (Revolution). The task? To choose a bottled water to brand and sell. And as is usual in the final the finalists got to choose the people who’d been fired in the previous rounds. The end result was that Revolution was composed of girls, except [...]

Junior apprentices fly to Amsterrdam, insult some designers and then try to hawk their products to Libertys and House of Fraser with mixed results. Who goes and was the firing right? See what you think…

Tim gets to demonstrate his project management skills, or does he?

Junior Apprentices make a complete cake of selling cup cakes in Selfridges

Junior Apprentices create Slide Stuff and Flex n Store. Find out which gets the most orders and who gets fired and whether it’s fair…

Junior Apprentice cheese sellers aren’t to be sniffed at. Unless they unload their cheese at less than cost price.

Does anyone truthfully know the reason for the growth of Internet marketing? I remember in the early days web sites were very unsophisticated and shopping karts and Paypal and Google didn’t work like they do now. People seemed to have very little trust that the Internet would deliver the goods they chose and bought. There [...]

All the time I’ve been executive coaching I’ve been observing the things that drive people forward to major achievement,. And it all comes down to 3 things. Those things are Purpose, Passion and Pride. Let me explain what each one of those mean… Your Purpose Every peak performer who has a job, runs a company [...]