Bold, but it’s by Branson!

One of the reasons Richard Branson has been hugely successful is that he has simply looked at things that other people don’t do, asked “Why not?” and then gone ahead and done them. Not surprisingly most have worked and many have become mainstream. His latest...

Out with the old, in with the new

Driving through Northern Italy I was staggered to see this huge warehouse structure, painted in familiar colours. And what was it? It was an Amazon fulfilment centre in Castel San Giovanni and boy was it huge as I’ve endeavoured to show in my hurried through the...

5 Myths about Business Planning

When people go through a bad patch in business, they sometimes refer to it as ‘a bit of bad luck’. We all get hit with something unforeseen from time-to-time but most often, ‘bad luck’ is a result of bad management and bad decisions. Here’s a double-barrelled tip:...

Tricks of the trade

I’m reminded that often there are tips or tricks of the trade that new people haven’t cottoned on to but are worth knowing about because they work so well. And when they work they set you and your business apart from the run of the mill competitors. For example,...

What can you learn from a wolf!

Well if you strip away the drugs, bad language, sex and all the rest of the salacious stuff and suspend your judgment on the rights and wrongs there are a number of great lessons for business people to take away from award-winning movie “The Wolf of Wall...

Having a system

A system is “the way we do things around here”. It’s the way your team faultlessly and flawlessly goes around doing something time-after-time to achieve the perfect result every time! And it happens that way because, as my good friend Doug Malouf used to say,...