by Guy | Mar 17, 2021 | BusinessFitness, Growth, Leadership, Strategy
I was reading an article on goal-setting recently which had me thinking about this in the context of running a business… How do you plan for the year ahead – is it a zero-based, or other, budget approach, the output of a strategy session, a ‘gut-feel’, some other way...
by Guy Whitcroft | Mar 15, 2021 | BusinessFitness, Growth, Leadership
Great words from this Olympic gymnastics champion. So often we’re inclined to look at successful people and wonder whether it was inheritance, luck or some other act of fortune that made them successful. And while there will always be some that did get there this way,...
by Guy Whitcroft | Mar 11, 2021 | BusinessFitness, Leadership, Strategy
It sometimes seems that the primary role of a CEO is fire-fighting – but this is wrong. CEOs should be Fire Prevention Officers. Fighting fires is all very well and often necessary, but it does mean much wasted time and energy if you are not taking measures, and...
by Guy Whitcroft | Mar 8, 2021 | BusinessFitness, Leadership
One of the things I still see all-too-often is a reluctance by companies to train their people properly – frequently on the basis that this will make them too valuable to competitors and so they’ll leave. Would you want to do business with a company staffed by people...
by Guy Whitcroft | Mar 3, 2021 | BusinessFitness, Growth, Leadership, Pandemic, COVID
I was reading a great report from Vistage – CEO Projections 2021: Reigniting the Growth Engine. Although written with a strong weighting around the US economy it really highlighted a few things for me, and for us in this part of the world. Firstly, that we, too, are...
by Guy Whitcroft | Mar 1, 2021 | BusinessFitness, Leadership, Strategy
Although this might, at first glance, seem contradictory, it does in fact make great sense. The point Eisenhower made so eloquently is that although plans invariably need changing during implementation, and so are useless if you stick rigidly to them, the act of...
