by Guy | May 3, 2023 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Excellence, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Strategy, Success
Many business owners and leaders have a vision for where they believe the business could be in the years ahead, but how many translate this vision into reality. Yet, as leadership studies pioneer Warren Bennis said, isn’t this what real leadership is all about? The...
by Guy | Apr 26, 2023 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Growth, Investing, Leadership, Profitability, Risk, Success, Valuation
I saw reference this week to a report which estimated the amount of private equity “dry powder” at a massive $1.96 trillion as at the end of last year (2022). These are funds committed by investors but not yet spent – in other words, for businesses that are in good...
by Guy | Apr 20, 2023 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Strategy, Work Life Balance
In this busy, busy world, where our attention is being sought by multiple people and sources all the time, it’s often tough to focus on the important and not just the urgent – hence the wise words quoted by this entrepreneurial teenager, Jared Silver, that “Doing...
by Guy | Apr 13, 2023 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Valuation
A business with a high-performance workforce that wants to stay with the company and be part of its success… Sounds like a dream? It’s actually very possible. Worryingly, 43% of some 36 000 employees interviewed by the HR specialist firm O.C. Tanner believe employee...
by Guy | Apr 6, 2023 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Character Traits, Culture, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Strategy, Valuation
Many companies, especially smaller ones, are neglecting an extremely valuable resource – the board – believing, quite wrongly, that the board of directors and board meetings are simply about statutory compliance and are costly in terms of time and money. Nothing is...
by Guy | Mar 30, 2023 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Economy, HR & Personnel, Motivation, Productivity, Recession, Work Life Balance
Is a global recession looming, or not? Certainly at the start of 2023, the IMF believed much of the world would be facing one this year, although by the end of February, forecasts were being pushed back. One thing is certain, a slowdown is underway and significant...