by Guy | Jun 1, 2023 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Excellence, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Success, Technology, Work Life Balance
Does your to-do list feel like it’s a black hole, sucking in all your time and not letting anything out? You’d be surprised at how common this feeling is, but it’s also simpler than you’d think to tame this beast and take control of your list and your time… Here are 6...
by Guy | Mar 16, 2022 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Leadership, Risk, Social Media, Success, Technology
There’s little doubt that cyber crime is a massive threat to businesses of all sizes, as well as to individuals (I had a card hacked very recently – I suspect from an online ride hailing service site). But are you taking the cyber security risk seriously, do you have...
by Guy | Mar 14, 2022 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Risk, Technology
While individual companies might well have greater threats (war springs to mind at the moment), there is little doubt that, taken across all businesses globally, cyber crime has to be the greatest threat. And Ginni Rometty should know – she was Chair, President and...
by Guy | Jan 5, 2022 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Leadership, Strategy, Success, Technology
CEOs of the most successful companies watch trends carefully, knowing that these can lead to significant shifts in their industry and business. This gives them the ability to plan and respond strategically to these shifts, rather than having to try to play catch-up....
by Guy | Dec 1, 2021 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Strategy, Technology
I read an interesting report in ITWeb this week following a survey by Xero, the cloud-based accounting software company for SMEs, of 400 South African small business owners. It shows how a lack of technology understanding and skills is costing these businesses dearly...
by Guy | May 12, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Technology, Work Life Balance, Working From Home
Reading Seth Godin’s blog post this morning really got me thinking: in this “new normal” are we paying for productivity or wasted time? Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been generally paid for a job – doing something in a central place for a number of...