by Guy | May 26, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Disruption, Excellence, Leadership, Risk, Strategy, Success
Business Strategy: the plans and actions you have identified that will enable you to achieve your business goals and objectives. Typically, you will have these at a company-wide level and then broken down further for each department / product / set and / or market in...
by Guy | May 18, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Disruption, Growth, Leadership, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Success, Working From Home
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, often counter-intuitively. Employee morale has...
by Guy | May 17, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Disruption, Growth, Leadership, Strategy, Success
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 what’s key to ongoing business success, as the...
by Guy | Apr 21, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Coaching, Disruption, Economy, Leadership, Lifetime Value, Profitability, Recession, Risk, Strategy, Success
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 / running and borrowing costs Declining customer demand...
by Guy | Apr 20, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Leadership, Productivity, Profitability, Recession, Risk, Strategy
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 sharply – two years of depressed demand had led to...
by Guy | Apr 7, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Disruption, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Strategy, Success
In these VUCA times, many companies are taking a critical look at their business strategy and determining what changes are necessary – some for survival, some for continued growth with new conditions. But are they linking strategy with the company culture? There’s no...