The BusinessFitness Blog
Thoughts on topics to help you make more of your business…
What CEOs Need to Succeed in Today’s Changing World
The world has been changing dramatically over the past few years, and with it, the demands on the CEO. What CEOs need to succeed in today’s changing world goes much further than just setting the vision and strategy of...
Start the New Year Strong: 5 Tips to Make Your Business Resolutions Stick!
Happy New Year! It’s a time for fresh starts, reflection, and making resolutions to be better in the upcoming year. Many business owners and CEOs use the start of the year to review their strategy and set business...
Are You Running Your Business or Leading It?
We often use the terms running your business and leading your business interchangeably, but they’re actually very different. Typically, an entrepreneur will start out running the business as it grows from a 1-person...
Time Management for Busy Executives
Time is money! It’s also a finite resource that we can neither buy nor replace – when it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Effective time management is the key for top executives to ensure they can manage their conflicting...
Are You Leaving Money on the Table? The Best Way to Boost Company Profitability.
If we look at the three variables in company profitability - sales volume, price and costs - the one that has the greatest impact on profits is price. And yet many businesses place their highest emphasis on the other...
Be Imperfect – It’s Great For Business!
Perfect [adj] - having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be. Isn’t this what we want from businesses and leaders we deal with? I would argue not – that...
“If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.” – Stephen Covey
We’re approaching the new year at a time of almost unparalleled uncertainty and yet in our business planning process we’re supposed to be certain, to plan effectively. But, as renowned businessman, educator and author,...
“A company is only as good as the people it keeps” – Mary Kay Ash
A company really is only as good as the people in it, as Mary Kay Ash, who founded and ran the hugely successful Mary Kay Cosmetics business knew well, gaining numerous personal and business awards, and being included...
How a Board Enables Faster and More Sustainable Growth For Businesses of All Sizes – Small to Large
Speaking last week with a couple of business owners, it became clear that in both these cases they were missing a great resource that could really work with them to be more profitable, and have faster and more...
Budgeting Compensation Packages for the New Year in Uncertain Times
As companies look to the new year, and budgeting, the issue of compensation packages is sure to be high on the discussion list. Companies are facing some particularly difficult times in this area: Pushing up costs:...
Going from Good to Great – How Companies Achieve Greatness
We live in a VUCA world, and yet there are companies that, despite the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, there are companies that continue to thrive – that go from good to great. Jim Collins is one of...
Why 70% of Mergers and Acquisitions Fail to Achieve Expected Results – and How to Beat The Odds
Last year, business spent a staggering $5.9 trillion dollars worldwide on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) according to Statista – well up from the $3.3 trillion annual average for the previous decade – and...