by Guy | Jul 28, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Profitability
Following last week’s post about how “Defining Your Ideal Customer Boost Profits,” I now want to turn to another very important consideration: your ideal employee. Research shows that almost 75% of people have left a job because of a cultural mismatch. Given the costs...
by Guy | Jul 26, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Customers, Disruption, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Profitability
Customers #Disruption #Excellence #Growth #Opportunity #Planning #ProblemSolving #Resilience #Success #Teams #Unstoppable #Winners #QOTWThis is really a continuation of the thinking around last week’s post, “Opportunity doesn’t make appointments” – you should not just...
by Guy | Jul 15, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Customer Service, Disruption, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Lifetime Value, Pandemic, COVID, Strategy
With anarchy gripping parts of South Africa, business owners here – even those not directly in the path of the violence – are facing the real prospect of serious issues with their businesses: staff safety, supply chain, customers, payment systems and general...
by Guy | Jul 12, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Productivity
What great words from the late Jim Rohn, a great American entrepreneur, author and speaker, succinctly showing the value of continued self-education. While there’s no question of the value of education, there is equally no question that it needs to continue throughout...
by Guy | Jun 30, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Growth, Leadership, Strategy, Work Life Balance
In their book, “Scale – Seven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back,” Jeff Hoffman and David Finkel pose the question, “What would happen to my business if I were hit by a bus?” Surveying more than 1000 business owners, they found that, on average,...
by Guy | Jun 28, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation
What a great summary of one of the most important facets of leadership from the global statesman, Henry Kissinger. Too often, leaders seem to think their role is one of telling people what to do without either leading the way or setting an example. And then there is...
