by Bernie Heine | Dec 5, 2016 | Business Coaching, Business Systems, Leadership, Strategic Planning
What business lessons did you learn last year? We’d really like to hear your point of view on this, so we can both learn from you and share your wisdom with all our other clients. At a recent team meeting, we talked about things we (re)learned over the last 12...
by Bernie Heine | Dec 3, 2016 | Leadership, Personal Evaluation, Strategic Planning
I’m returning here to everybody’s hot topic; personal productivity. I have written to you before about actions you can take to work smarter, and David Rock’s ‘Your Brain at Work’ has given me a lot more food for thought on being a ‘knowledge worker.’ Of course, this...
by Bernie Heine | Jun 7, 2016 | Business Coaching, Leadership, Marketing, Sales, Strategic Planning
David Yoffie’s book ‘Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs’ is a fascinating analysis of the greatest business minds of our time. These three unique individuals have some common themes that help explain the phenomenal...
by Bernie Heine | Apr 7, 2016 | Business Coaching, Business Systems, Financial Management, Leadership, Marketing, Sales, Strategic Planning
Our world is facing a tsunami of change. As business leaders, you have the option of riding the wave of change on a surfboard of innovation and creativity. Or, you can bask on ‘comfort zone’ beach as usual and wait to be swamped. Because contrary to popular belief,...
by Bernie Heine | Mar 4, 2016 | Business Systems, Exit/Succession Planning, Financial Management, Sales, Strategic Planning
Personal productivity is a daily choice. For all of us, there are two sorts of tasks to do: Steve McClatchy calls them ‘move toward gain’ tasks and ‘prevent pain’ tasks. I call them ‘wealth-creators’ and ‘chores.’ Chores are everyday tasks like getting your car...
by Bernie Heine | Feb 23, 2016 | Business Coaching, Business Systems, Customer Service, Exit/Succession Planning, Financial Management, Human Resources, Leadership, Marketing, Personal Evaluation, Sales, Strategic Planning
Your role is ‘Champion of Continuous Improvement’… When you recognize that your business is a key part of the global economic matrix, you can grow and develop along with it, by working matrix style, as and when needed. Matrix organizations came about in the 60’s in...
