Value is the most potent differentiation – Be unique by providing more value Being unique is desirable, but highly unlikely. I have to admit that “being different” doesn’t necessarily mean doing something that is radically opposed, totally unique, or in some other way completely different, and yet has the potential to succeed. One size doesn’t… Continue Reading
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Leveling The Playing Field
What chance do you have, if you are just starting a business on your own, of taking on the already established and well positioned businesses that are better organised and structured, with more resources and options, better people (currently, you have no one working for you) and where they are already working toward a defined… Continue Reading
What Is Your Purpose
Which do you prefer: smooth-water sailing or the amazing adventure of life? What is your life about? The World is impatient No matter what you decide, the world will go on. Things will change, opportunities will arise, and somebody brave and crazy enough will take them. And then, the rest of us will talk about… Continue Reading
Challenges – Unleashing Your Best
The true challenge is how to unleash your best to do it despite difficulties Love your challenges; don’t let them defeat you before your best is unleashed and you are able to shine. We are our own toughest competitors. Although we look outside in search of role models, meaning and purpose; we are truly in a… Continue Reading
The fudge factors of team building
How team building outperforms every other strategy to win against competitors every time? How to build cohesive teams to create superior results and why “people powers” matter? Team building! Drop amidst any boardroom meeting and invariably you’ll come across the topic for at least once; while some plan to get one together, others brag about… Continue Reading
Motivation Models That Solve People Issues
Daily dose requirement Motivation is like bathing, It doesn’t last. Therefore, we recommend the regular daily dose , says Zig Zigglar. What truly motivates us, drive us to do what we do and to love what we love is somehow still mystery. We think we know what we want but instead fear to start. And… Continue Reading
What Key Performance Indicators Should Be Measured In Your Business – Business Coaching Tip
“We monitor a set of Key Performance Indicators, and use these to help make decisions. “ The language of business is numbers. Business owners must have a strong grasp of their numbers, they must be able to read, interpret and explain financial statements, and they must know how the various statements relate to each other.… Continue Reading
Life lessons – Pay Tolls When They Are Due
Life lessons get repeated for a reason We get reminded from time to time that, the devil’s in the details. Small things often get overlooked. We don’t pay attention because we were not aware or them, we chose not to, or we did not emphasise them enough on our hierarchy of wants. They get labelled… Continue Reading
How To Leverage Strengths And Win In The Game Of Marketing
Quality is overrated… Quality is simply overrated. Quality is insufficient to win in business nowadays. Today more than ever before being the best in something doesn’t reflect on your bottom lines. Examples are everywhere if you are willing to search for them. Being the best, means nothing if weaknesses in communication (marketing, structure, sales and… Continue Reading
Craft The Winning Strategies – SMARTie Way
Without proper clarity, your GOALS become fuzzy, you lack the proper direction and focus, and your tasks will typically take much longer. Your GOALS end the mystery within your mind and in the minds of your team as a whole. No more wandering around. We are all on the same page. And you are on the same winning page because both; the desired outcome you are inevitably striving for, and most importantly, the END outlook are clearer and defined.
Without clearly communicated goals, you have to explain more often than not, repeat and enforce, and sometimes even lose voice. Everything changes when aim is known. Business focus is safeguarded with well-crafted strategies which is the true key to the success that you really want to reach within and throughout your business.
Personal SWOT Analysis And Business Reflections
Where Your Personal SWOT Analysis Counts A personal SWOT analysis further identifies the same things within yourself, giving you a broader range of opportunities that are found within the business as you inevitably hold the reigns. The personal SWOT is as important to your business as the business SWOT analysis, offering a great picture of… Continue Reading
Business SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis as the current reality examiner in your business Today we get to talk about the SWOT analysis, which really becomes the current reality examiner for you and your business. This is the ultimate moment of truth – determining just who, what, where, when, and why your business goes forward. In this lesson, I… Continue Reading
How To Formulate Compelling Vision Statement?
Vision must be in writing Creating your first vision statement isn’t difficult in terms of writing it per se. It is, however, mental exercise that requires your full attention. It is important, as your mission acts as invisible hand, guiding and leading at the same time while providing purpose for everyone in your team to… Continue Reading
Big Vision For Your Growing Business
Why big vision matters In this post or a lesson, we talk about YOUR BIG VISION, as well as YOUR MISSION. We will discuss your business, the personal expressions about what matters most to you in the current situation and in regards to desired future you are creating. We will also discuss entrepreneurial mindset, and… Continue Reading
Values Are Foundation of Performances
Identifying your core values goes beyond the business into yourself as well, as you are the main control of all that goes on within the business – so naturally those values you hold dear to yourself are quite essential to the business as well. Because of values You hold Important; at the beginning of your… Continue Reading
Values – Your Core Entrepreneurial Denominator
This post is continuation about my latest thinking on Start-up Business Building where we are going to explain VALUES on personal and organizational levels as well as their importance and relation to your various goals, objectives, and overall – your VISION. So, let us begin with what is believed to be the most critical point… Continue Reading
The Top 10 Priorities For Business Growth
Business Growth Fundamentals – The Top 10 Priorities For Growing Successful Businesses Statistic doesn’t lie. Numbers don’t stack in your favour when you are commencing a business venture on your own. There are numerous researches that prove my point, where 80 % of business fail within a 5 year period from inception. Harsh reality for… Continue Reading
Simplifying Strategic planning: Making vision, mission and goal converge
The term Strategic Planning is itself a self-explanatory one and it is in use ever since man learned to hunt and live. Or, we may say strategic planning is all about setting a direction, which helps an individual or a group, achieve a specific or a number of targets. It is all about selecting the… Continue Reading
Closing The Performance Gap Caused By Inaccurate Thinking
Better thinking brings superior results and in today’s over-competitive world, results are everything. We are measured and valued in accordance to the results we produce, solutions we create and problems that we solve. The more we offer, the better are rewards. The more we create, the larger our pay- cheque. As everything around us is… Continue Reading
How To Focus Attention & Thinking To Get Desired Business Results Faster
Thinking for Results – How To Timely Place Focus on The Right Things One of the most desirable qualities of entrepreneurs is to dream big sometimes, way ahead of their time. The importance of this lays in our ability to come up with new ideas, to create something that never existed before, to come up… Continue Reading
Business Reality Checking & Business Focus – Are You Passionate About What You Intend To Do?
Where Your Entrepreneurial Business Focus Should Be When You Are Starting The Business In early stages of growth two things determine everything that business may become; founder’s passion and the business focus on results, mission and vision. So, where do you get the passion that is necessary in early stages of your business development? And,… Continue Reading
Do You Make These Mistakes In Your Business_Part 4 Conclusion
Attempting To Be Jack of all trades I know you’ll say when you beginning in business you don’t pick and chose clients. You simply accept everything that comes your way. No picking and choosing, no delays. You jump as soon as they blink. You try to impress, delight, deliver and often go way beyond expectancies.… Continue Reading
Do You Make These Mistakes In Your Business_Part 3
Lack of Financial Education Not knowing your key financial indicators and not raising your hand for quality financial advice is by far the most painful mistake someone in business could make. Why is it so? Let me explain; when money is involved and you lose your savings, your retirement or funds for your kid’s education,… Continue Reading
Do You Make These Mistakes In Your Business_Part 2
Hiring Poor Performers and Keeping Them Longer Than What Is Reasonably Expected If you are running a business and employ people, your success rate will be, in most cases, determined by the quality of people you bring on board. If employees, current and future, buy into your vision, support you unreservedly, complement your skills and… Continue Reading
Do You Make These Mistakes In Your Business _ Part 1
The main purpose of this series of articles is to emphasise 2 things. First, to make you, the “entrepreneur in the making”, aware of the learning curve you need to get into, to make your business thrive in a rapidly changing environment. Second, to point out that your learning span could be significantly shortened if… Continue Reading
What if “Someday” never comes?
Business growth coach will suggest that you make plans to pay yourself first and plan to reward yourself for every meaningful contribution and every positive achievement that you are proud off. “I pay myself first, and don’t make undue personal sacrifices of time or money for the sake of the business. “ Maybe the statement… Continue Reading
Taking action that matters, when it matters, knowing why and what is it that matters
Take action to improve your business and you will achieve what you set out to do. If something doesn’t work as planned and desired review, align and adjust. Most importantly reflect and take action to resolve today. There are no secrets in achieving the level of success you truly want. There are no hidden formulas,… Continue Reading
Business Coach Advises It’s not the “business for the sake of being in business”
Business growth coach will most certainly suggest and advise that before anyone commence business venture it would be beneficial and wise to formulate business expectations. Your business coach may call it performance and expectancy agreement (PEA) between you and your business. I know you’ll say there is no such thing as PEA and why on… Continue Reading
6 Essential Steps You Must Take To Perform in Anything
After careful consideration and thinking around what makes a person successful, I came to the realization that there are 6 essential ingredients that must be present to succeed in anything we want. Here they are, outlined, summarized and emphasized for your benefits. You can take my observation and run with it, or you can simply… Continue Reading
Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule) in Marketing
Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist, contributed greatly to both marketing and business thinking and left us with some important postulates to consider in everything we do. His theory and research, provided powerful insights for us to take further in exploring our ways to higher leverage, better outcomes, solutions, results…He originally analysed distribution of national wealth in… Continue Reading
“Nobody Can Do It As Good As I Can” Syndrom
You may be one of those business owners who believes “nobody can do it as well as I can.” You may be right, you may be wrong. Everyone’s circumstances are different, but the key to business success does not lie in you doing everything you can possibly do. In fact, “you doing everything” stands smack dab in the way of business success. It only communicates deeper issue which is a lack of trust and accountability in your business. And as you may be very well aware, once it is gone, missing, shattered, in any area of life, trust is so hard to regain.… Continue Reading
Why You Need To Learn Effective Delegation
Why delegation matters in business and why you need to learn to delegate? Simply put, you can’t do it all. You don’t want to do it all. It will be a complete disservice if you do, so don’t even try. Effective delegation provides superior business development because now, your business grows independently from you, your skills and… Continue Reading
How To Lose Competitive Edge And Destroy Your Business
The purpose of this article is to point out what are some of the most common traits for loosing competitive edge over competitors and by doing so greatly reducing business success likelihoods. My intention is not to provide you with complex terminology but rather simple to understand behaviour characteristics that if let alone and inappropriately… Continue Reading
Developing A Simple Marketing Plan
Why Marketing Plan Could Be The Most Important Document Ever Created In Your Business If your intention is to do any type of marketing activities in order to grow your business, a must is to start with a so called marketing plan. In this article I am going to lay out important steps for creating… Continue Reading
Leadership Communications: Why A Good Commandment Turns Sour
Let’s face it: Every employer has problems at certain points of the supreme position making an employee or more sway to their tune. This steams from organisational hierarchy and the corporate/business culture itself. Nothing gives an employer a darker nightmare than his employee(s) letting go off something that made the employer feel the Boss; however,… Continue Reading
Delegate, Out-Task, Out-Source Or Spin Your Wheels – Your Business, Your Life, Your Choice
“I delegate authority & allow others the freedom to determine how to reach co-created desired results. “ One of the critical success factors in building a great companies and businesses is the ability of leaders (both in hierarchy and without the titles, formal and informal) to effectively delegate. In my opinion great companies are built… Continue Reading
Time Management – How To Make The Most Of Your 24 Hours
“I make good use of time. I use a calendar, and I schedule personal time and planning time for myself.” Question: What do you have in common with Donald Trump? Answer: You both get 24 hours per day. You may or may not admire Donald Trump, but you have to admit that his business accomplishments… Continue Reading
Short One About Marketing And Sales –Attaining The Perfect Balance
We all want more sales. The question is at what cost? Companies want sales. One way to do that is by nagging people, stating repeatedly how great their product shall prove for them. This makes people get apprehensive over the product, so sales is bound to suffer. On the other hand, if people could… Continue Reading
In Entrepreneurship The Emphasis Is On RISK
The battle between Pro- and Anti-: The emphasis is on Risk Being averse to risks is definitely a trait for conservative minds but at times, even the most permissive psyche gives into it, confusing people all the more regarding whether risk-taking is another form of heresy. What they don’t understand is there’s a difference between… Continue Reading
Why Did You Go Into Business Anyway?
I went into business because I’m passionate about my industry, about being an entrepreneur and about enhancing, improving and adding value to someone’s business and life through my meaningful and just-in-time contributions Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about what it means to be an “entrepreneur.” Entrepreneurs have been qualified, described, classified, defined,… Continue Reading
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