On a scale of 1-10 how satisfied are you with what your business is achieving for you and your family?
Do you dream of jetting off to catch some winter sunshine yet can’t because you feel trapped under your business? 
It could all be so different – if only you could make the change. 
There are six key [...]

Getting into a deal to buy a business is relatively easy.
The skill lies in knowing how – and when – to exit successfully.
With one in 136 companies currently going into liquidation, insolvency practitioners and receivers are not short of businesses to sell. Invariably there are some very tempting offers on the table for owners who [...]

We only have ourselves to blame, says Matthew Parris in the London Times, for the economic trouble we now find ourselves in.  
We tried to get richer without working hard – and without increasing productivity.
According to Parris the answer is in our own hands, adjust our lifestyle, live within our means, borrow less, work harder and [...]

With 25 per cent of the year having gone swiftly by, have you considered how you will exceed your business growth target for the next quarter? What are you going to do differently?
You want to see sales increase and costs come down. So what changes are you going to make to how you behave, so [...]

Embarking on the emotional rollercoaster of transferring a family-owned business demands careful planning and brutal honesty in assessing if the next generation is up to the job of running the company.  
In my experience as a business strategist and executive coach, less than half of family run enterprises are unable to make the move from [...]

Business strategies often fail because things don’t happen as planned.
A common cause of failure – drawing on my decades of expertise in performance coaching – is the absence of a plan that ensures the correct flow of goods, services, and whatever else is needed to deliver the strategic goals.  In an increasingly competitive market place [...]