by Guy | Oct 27, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Strategy, Success, Valuation
What makes for great leadership? It used to be simply one of providing the best returns to shareholders, and so was focused on results, but we now realise that the other two Rs, reputation and relationships are equally important for a sustainable business – one...
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 18, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Leadership, Strategy, Success
Change is inevitable throughout life, and yet many people get really uncomfortable with it. As well-known business author, speaker, trainer, Jeffrey Gitomer, says, the reaction to change is often a four-letter word, although it shouldn’t be. Where would we be without...
by Guy | Oct 13, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, Pandemic, COVID, Strategy, Success, Upturn
VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity. You’d think it was an acronym designed specifically for these very different times in which we currently live. In fact, though, it was coined in the late 80s by the US Army War College to describe the rapidly...
by Guy | Oct 11, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Strategy, Success
Overwhelm is something most of us feel at times – there’s simply not enough time to get things done. But is it really a lack of time, or is it rather a lack of direction, of focus? One of the early, and best-known motivational speakers and author of more than 30...
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,...
