The BusinessFitness Blog
Thoughts on topics to help you make more of your business…
“Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind.” – Robin S Sharma
Have you ever had “one of those days” where you just can’t seem to finish anything? You’re constantly distracted, and end it feeling your productivity has been bad and you’ve a longer to-do list than when you started?...
Silicon Valley Bank – Did its Leadership Cause the Collapse? – Accountability in Corporate Failures
One of the dominant news items of the past week or so was the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse. It caused a level of panic around the world, understandable as it’s a high profile bank which was focused on providing finance...
Leading a Fearless Business: Boosting Growth and Profits
Fear is a powerful emotion: strong enough that people’s fears can kill a business. But a fearless business – one where people feel confident enough to always give of their best – is unstoppable. As Amy Edmondson says...
Core Character Traits Every Business Owner Should Have – Guest Post
Becoming a business owner is no easy feat. It requires hard work, dedication, and most importantly, the right core character traits. In order to be successful in the world of business, there are certain traits that are...
Will AI Hurt Your Business or Supercharge It?
It’s hard to read any newspaper or newsletter today without at least one article on Artificial Intelligence (AI), such has been the hype this year – many suggesting a wholesale move to AI is not only imminent, but...
Unpacking Elon Musk’s Productivity Tips: Could They Supercharge Your Business?
Late last year, Elon Musk sent an email to all staff at Tesla with his 6 rules for greater productivity. Naturally, it leaked… So, would taking advice from the world’s richest man work for your business? In summary,...
Unlock the True Value of Your Business: How to Create a Profitable Business Beyond Your Presence!
What would happen to your business if something happened to you? Would it remain profitable? Would it realise its true value? Would it even survive? What would happen to your family? And when was the last time you took...
“The future belongs to those who plan for it.” – Jim Moran
How true – for without planning, the future becomes simply a matter of luck. What brought this to mind was reading a report from IWG / Regus earlier today entitled, “The Future of Work – a trends forecast for 2023.”...
Business Impact: Is “The Great Resignation” moving to “The Great Layoff” for Employers?
Change happens! We might think that constant change is new, but as Niccolo Machiavelli said, more than 500 years ago, “Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.” Is “The Great Layoff”...
“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.” – Horace Mann
Have you ever driven to work, or home, and realised when you get there that you have no memory of the drive – almost as if you weren’t doing it? Habits are a strange thing. They make our lives easier by allowing us to...
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
As a business leader, it is often easy to get caught up in the day-to-day tasks of running a business and forget the importance of making quick decisions – especially when coming back from a holiday and finding your...
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen Covey
A New Year: we enter it full of new beginnings and hope, often in the form of resolutions, whether written down or not. Yet few resolutions are achieved (less than 8% of those written down), with most putting failure...