Maximizing Your Business Value: A Guide for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

Maximizing Your Business Value: A Guide for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

by | 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...
From Good to Great: How Employee Recognition Can Transform Company Culture

From Good to Great: How Employee Recognition Can Transform Company Culture

by | 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...
Building a High-Performing Board of Directors: Key Qualities to Look for in Board Members

Building a High-Performing Board of Directors: Key Qualities to Look for in Board Members

by | 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...
If Recession Looms, are 4-Day Weeks or 70-Hour Weeks the Smarter Choice for Your Business and Employees?

If Recession Looms, are 4-Day Weeks or 70-Hour Weeks the Smarter Choice for Your Business and Employees?

by | 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...