The BusinessFitness Blog
Thoughts on topics to help you make more of your business…
Business Risks – How to Encourage Effective Innovation in the New Working Environment
Research into the past two years of our radically-changed working environment is throwing up some interesting and often somewhat conflicting results. Productivity has improved in some areas but regressed in others,...
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” -Theodore Levitt
What a great way to distinguish between two often-used words. Thinking up new things is great, but without implementation, nothing happens. Essentially, therefore, Creativity + Work = Innovation, and innovation is...
Will a 4-Day Week Increase Productivity In Your Business?
In my last post, I was looking at the concept of a 4-day week and some statistics on how American workers, particularly the younger ones, feel about this: in a nutshell, overwhelmingly positive about the concept. A New...
“It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.” – Brian White
This really is about making the best use of your time (whether leisure or work) saying that if you make the best use of every day – “the life in your days” – you’ll get so much more out of life and for your business....
Gemba – Taking MBWA to the Next Level
MBWA, introduced by HP in the 70s and popularised by management guru Tom Peters in the 80s has successfully taken generations of managers out from behind their desks to become more involved and better leaders. Is it...
“The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.” – Benjamin Franklin
A remarkable man, Benjamin Franklin, and a true polymath. Although most widely known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he was so much more than this: scientist, inventor, businessman, newspaper...
TACK – Effective Business Leadership in a Remote Working World
It seems that most countries are learning to live with COVID, with hospitalisation rates from the virus trending down. And while there is a move back to offices following the end of lockdown restrictions around the...
“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” – Peter Drucker
Many people use the two words – efficiency and effectiveness – interchangeably, but they can result in very different outcomes. People who are efficient can complete tasks with the least amount of effort and/or...
Inflation – Reducing the Risks to Your Business with the 5 Cs
In my previous post, I touched on why a little inflation is desirable, but high inflation almost inevitably leads to a recession, and presents a number of challenges and risks to business, including: Rising input /...
“Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.” – Margaret Thatcher
Inflation is going to have a significant effect on business and individuals for the next few years. As we started to exit the pandemic and business started to get going again, energy prices started to rise quite...
The Power of Accountability in Business Success
Business is facing a growing problem with declining levels of engagement by staff. Lower engagement means lower productivity, less customer satisfaction and increased costs. Put simply – it’s bad for business. And yet,...
“Accountability closes the gap between intention and results.” – Sandra Gallagher
I’ve often found a level of confusion in people’s minds between ‘responsibility’ and ‘accountability’ so let’s clarify this first. ‘Responsibility’ can be thought of as what happens before and during an action –...