by Guy | Oct 12, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Growth, Investing, Strategy, Success, Valuation
Last year, business spent a staggering $5.9 trillion dollars worldwide on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) according to Statista – well up from the $3.3 trillion annual average for the previous decade – and yet, as Harvard Business Review has found, 70%, or...
by Guy | Jul 21, 2022 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Excellence, Growth, Investing, Leadership, Productivity, Profitability, Strategy, Success, Work Life Balance
Statistics show that some 40% of CEOs fail within their first three years – a high, and costly, failure rate. Understanding the success secrets of the world’s best CEOs will help your business, your own development, and ensure you can avoid becoming just another...
by Guy | Aug 24, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Investing, Strategy, Valuation
I first came across this quote on the importance of risk when listening to one of Rob Moore’s great “Disruptive Entrepreneur” podcasts, although I’ve subsequently seen it attributed to both the US-based business coach and author, John Spence, and to Facebook’s Mark...
by Guy | Aug 16, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Investing, Recession, Strategy, Upturn, Valuation
This applies so strongly to business. Almost all businesses start small but only a few grow to become successful giants – some 70% don’t survive 5 years. However, those that do, and can attract venture-capital backing become ‘Unicorns” at a higher rate than you might...
by Guy | Apr 12, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Investing, Strategy, Technology
While most changes to business models are incremental, we should always be looking to see how we can make our existing model obsolete by replacing it with something new. Incremental changes are, of course, much easier to copy and so any such changes will only give you...
by Guy | Jul 31, 2013 | Business - General, Investing, Lifestyle, Marketing
Just a few years ago, the concept of a driverless car was nothing more than science fiction. Today, it is fast becoming reality with Google cars having already covered over 500,000 miles (800,000 km) without any accident while under “robot control.” Of course, it’s...
