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Your Succession Plan – Do you know its value?
Only 3 in 20 businesses survive to see 3 generations. It’s a scary statistic isn’t it? All that blood sweat, tears, and success, doesn’t add up to a hill of beans, if your business dies when you walk away. Don’t get me wrong here, walking away from your business,...
Top 10 Networking Tips
Your Business is your Brand – It is a reflection of you. Networking is a fundamental marketing tool. Come along to one of PBC’s events and share your networking stories. We can all learn from each other. In the meantime here are 10 practical networking tips to...
Time Management
Many say “Time is money” yet it is actually more valuable than that since you can get more money, but you can never get more time. All of our businesses would be much more profitable, if only we were more productive and relaxed with our personal time in the five...
Leadership is a Verb
Ask yourself, ‘what makes a great leader’? Think about great leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King or JFK and it is clear that leadership is about having a vision. Your vision for your enterprise (or for yourself personally) is no less valid than:...
Cash Flow: The Pulse Of Your Business
I don’t need to remind you, how important cash flow is to your business. A late delivery or defective products are quality failures that can be learned from, and put right. But a cash dribble can mean a slow death for your business. Cash flow is a complex issue...
What if…? Two Powerful Words in Business Innovation
Winter, like taxes and death, is inevitable. What if power outages coincide with heavy snow? The wise homeowner like the smart entrepreneur prepares for such emergencies while the sun shines, but what if you are not prepared on that cold day? Loss of electricity...
What Matters Now
As entrepreneurs, wealth creators and employers, we all carry a great responsibility within our communities. Hamel points out how “What Matters Now” are 5 challenges: 1. Values: Trust in our big businesses and institutions has never been lower. Just think, Enron,...
Realistic Goals = Business Success
Don’t get left out in the cold, all winter lost and confused. I’m not talking about hypothermia, but rather that business slow death of having no clear strategy or goals. This is the natural season to take some time to consider where you are and where you want to take...
The Power of Sharing
When you put “out in the world,” what you want, you are using a very powerful leadership skill. It will generate change. How will people know how to help you, if you don’t know in your own mind?Two recent examples of putting this in practice. I belong to a group that...
Measuring Performance – Are you getting where you want to go?
How does your enterprise score? Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are to your business, what the score is to a football game at halftime. They simplify the random chaos that is the business game that never ends. Many people mistake measures such as ‘sales revenue’ or...
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