Leaders – Do You Think Like a Scientist?

by Guy | Apr 8, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, Strategy

Wharton professor Adam Grant, in his new book, Think Again, has been looking at how we utilise various styles of thinking and which are best for different situations, concluding that one particularly powerful one is not used nearly enough. Too often, it seems, we...

“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” – Arab Proverb

by Guy | Apr 6, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Growth, Motivation, Strategy

There are, of course many versions of this proverb, but all have one thing in common – the underlying belief that we need a degree of adversity for success, which is why 90% of family fortunes in America are squandered by the end of the third generation: life is just...

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Guy | Mar 23, 2021 | BusinessFitness, Growth, Leadership, Motivation, Strategy

Essentially, what Emerson is saying is don’t just follow the crowd. After all, if our business offering is essentially the same as that of all our competitors, all that’s left to compete on is price, and price is never a sustainable advantage. Finding a USP with the...

Looking Back to Look Ahead

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...

“Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up.” – Gabby Douglas

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,...

Is Your Business Ready for Growth This Year?

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...