Investing Archives - Business Fitness

Success Secrets of the World’s Best CEOs

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...

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.” – Rob Moore

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...

“Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.” – English proverb

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...

“Never change things by fighting the existing reality…to change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

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...

Google cars – Sheer Driverless Pleasure?

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...

Should the Euro Survive?

by Guy | Dec 17, 2011 | Banking, Business - General, Economy, Europe, Investing, Recession

There’s been an enormous amount of ink used on the ‘veto’ that David Cameron used in Europe last week, with warnings of dire consequences if the UK doesn’t help to support the Euro. Frankly, I don’t understand this as the Euro has been...