Business Growth Power Pack

Learning from Nellie, Paying for all identified training, where do you stop? And what about leadership mentoring. Find out in this post.

Hi, Enjoy the post. If you find this blog useful, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss out on the nuggets. Thanks for visiting!We all need a little criticism in our lives. Otherwise how could we improve?
However, the carpers, the doubters and the envious we can do without.
Ex-president [...]

The thirty day challenge, what it is and how to get on it

Recession proof, a video that shows what can be achieved

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 a [...]

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.

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?

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!

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 company [...]

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 to [...]

Biofuel-powered transport company JPM Eco Logistics became famous when every Dragon from BBC’s Dragon’s Den wanted a share in it.
Paul Merker (joint company owner) said they were pleased with the deal they picked, although if they’d thought more about it they would have negotiated with the Dragons rather than just accepting one of the [...]

“Can you sell a loss making business?” is a question I was asked recently.
And of course the answer is yes!
There could be many reasons why someone would want to buy that business, for example:

It has patents that another company could use or develop to make profits with
The company order book has plenty of orders another [...]

The Apprentice Goes Fishing and Sir Alan picks an Apprentice to go

Of course you want to be a business that’s growing and one that’s making a positive difference to your employees, customers and suppliers.
If you fit the bill you should sign up for the contest to find “Bank of Scotland Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year.”
It’s got a certain ring to it hasn’t it?
And even better you [...]

I talked to a gentleman last week who had a bit of a puzzle. He had started and run 2 very successful businesses.
Then a few years ago he retired and stepped down from running them day to day handing over the reins to his children. One business is still highly successful and is very profitable. [...]

It’s vital that executives realise that when they’re appointed they’re not also anointed with God-given powers to drag their firm into the economic stratosphere.
Equally coaches needs to understand that each business is unique and not simply a cookie-cutter exercise in “helping” people see they need coaching.
Sometimes some coaches suffer from the delusion that they know [...]

Richard Branson Talks Turkey At TED

Get some inspiration and see Richard Branson being interviewed.  He gives us the reason Virgin Brides didn’t do well. And he says what’s it like to face what seems like certain death.
Do you know how many companies this rebel billionaire has? They show a pile of them on the screen [...]