The original TroubleshooterTV programme with the delightful Sir John Harvey-Jones had a great formula: an experienced business leader visits and advises small and often struggling UK businesses. It made business management a popular … [Read more...]

Here are 12 things to include in a not-to-do list. 1) Don't email first thing or last thing each day                                                                                                                                       … [Read more...]

If it wasn’t true you would think that someone had made it up. However, the story I am going to tell you gets recounted to me every single week of the year. It is a scenario that is played out all over the world, again and again, with … [Read more...]

Traditional marketing techniques deliver ever-decreasing results. It's time for a review of how to connect and reach customers. Most marketing doesn't work. It is progressively more expensive and results seem to be harder to come … [Read more...]

Jack and Jill (names changed to protect the innocent) took their respective redundancy packages and set aside the sum of £100,000 to set up and launch their ‘baby’ which we’ll call NewCo. Having attended various workshops and seminars … [Read more...]

Despite our best intentions we spend too much time in the detail of the business and we lose the plot; suddenly everything seems a bit like hard work... we become addicted to this hard work and think that this is what running your own … [Read more...]

A board is a board. Whether it is in a big business or in a small business, there seem to be some common features of a board. While we can emphasise the differences (size, scale, scope, resources, experience, stakeholders), I would … [Read more...]