by Guy | Oct 20, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Leadership, Oil, Pandemic, COVID, Profitability, Recession, Strategy, Success, Upturn
I don’t know if you’ve seen this great MindBullet entitled “China’s Perfect Storm” which was “written from 30 years in the future”. For those of you unfamiliar with it, MindBullets sends out a weekly ‘bullet’ written ‘from the future,’ and looking back to things...
by Guy | Oct 5, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Customers, Excellence, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Profitability, Success, Valuation
Company culture is both real and complex. A small company generally takes its lead from the founding members, but as the business grows, new people come in and this can cause disruption – both to original members who find themselves a layer further away from the...
by Guy | Sep 30, 2021 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Leadership, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Strategy, Success, Valuation
l3Many business owners believe that boards are for larger companies only, and small companies cannot afford the time or the costs of a proper board. This is very wrong! Although large companies need to have properly-constituted boards in terms of the Companies Act,...
by Guy | Sep 22, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Customers, Growth, Profitability, Sales, Success, Valuation
Often, when we look at a business, it seems that big changes are needed if the business is to achieve decent levels of profitability. However, the reality is that small changes to the critical levers in a business can lead to huge increases overall, due to the...
by Guy | Sep 15, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Growth, Leadership, Pandemic, COVID, Profitability, Strategy, Upturn
No less than 61% of South African SMMEs surveyed by Mastercard* in Q2 this year are actively planning for growth. This despite a massive 84% saying their revenue has been negatively affected by the pandemic, with the survey showing that 79% are looking at earnings...
by Guy | Sep 13, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Customer Experience, CX, Customers, HR & Personnel, Motivation, Productivity, Profitability, Work Life Balance
Vaughn Aust really captures this succinctly – if your team is happy, it’s going to be a lot more productive, and will be giving the right message to your customers, too, making them happier, and leading to a more profitable business. Often, executives are entirely...
