Have you noticed that all major economic crises are man-made. The crash of 1929, two World Wars, the 2008 mortgage crisis and even Brexit. Until now they cou...

📷 It means you have a lot of opportunities. With the nation stuck at home for, we don’t know how many weeks. What are people going to do? They can’t go out,...

That is according to Forbes, the business magazine, it says that various studies have shown that 9 out of 10 spread sheets contain errors. Most as a result o...

Some years ago, John Madejski, the multi-millionaire owner of Reading Football Club, took part in a television documentary, he swapped lives with a single mo...

Your business is expanding. You are becoming busier. You are spending more and more time working. It is not long before someone suggests that you need to tak...

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Albert...

"The concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,...

It's late fall and the Indians on a remote reserve in Alberta asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief ...

Do you know your USP, your Unique Selling Point? Your USP is the thing that makes your business stand out from every other one, therefore telling the world w...

I asked a client this same question recently, and she didn’t know what I was talking about, so I decided to explain. On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh lande...

By sorting the mess of your invoices, purchase orders, bank accounts and other paperwork into an organised format you have the management information you nee...

This is a great quote, but somehow when everything goes wrong it is difficult to go on with enthusiasm, therefore Churchill has another quote “If you're goin...

ID 9288284 © Niderlander | Dreamstime.com​ I ask the question after an interesting experience that I had last week I was contacted by a client I hadn’t seen ...

Lack of planning. That seems obvious doesn’t it, however, you would be surprised how many people in business have an idea in their head, go and do it, withou...

For the last year, I have been mentoring Portuguese company, whose head office is at Canary Wharf in London, I imagined they must have been a big company, th...

You’ve done your business plan, you have presented it, you have the funds, your business is ready to go. You have your dream, you have the pictures on the wa...

Recently, I had a client who wasn’t paying me, I didn’t feel he was purposely delaying, I just don’t think he was bothered, so as a subtle reminder I sent hi...

Before you can solve a problem you need to define what has caused that problem. This sounds rather obvious, doesn’t it? However, you wouldn’t believe the num...

Many people panic when faced with balance sheets usually because they don’t understand them. Basically, a balance sheet is a snapshot of a company on a given...

Lack of planning That seems obvious doesn’t it, however, you would be surprised how many people in business have an idea in their head, go and do it, without...