Standard & Poor companies posted a 6.6% rise in 4th quarter earnings in 2011 but if you excluded one company, Apple, the growth figure shrinks to 2.8%. The reality of the S&P 500 earnings growth is far less impressive. What could you see better by stripping...
As the CEO, it’s easy I hear you say, just increase sales or reduce costs or both! Brilliant. However on the basis that your operational team needs more guidance than that, I’ve listed a few ideas to get your juices flowing. A few ideas worth considering...
During last year at The Portfolio Partnership we embedded our operational blueprint across many sectors. The most common symptom across all clients? Handing operational problems correctly to get them solved. Yes key operational blueprints regarding marketing and...
When I started blogging in the summer of 2008 on a regular basis I had a simple objective, to share short, sharp pieces of operational advice that had worked for me over the last 25 years. Specifically I aspired to help owners and their teams make their businesses:...
As a leader within an SMB or a large public group, reading the latest WSJ or books from Seth, Bill Taylor, Hugh MacLeod, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, you might believe the world has changed forever. Add crazy valuations like $60Bn for a social network...
Investing in your biggest asset, your people, is one of the simplest, cheapest and most effective way to build your business. The trouble is that most in house training is badly executed with no formal curriculum and little inspiration connecting all the moving parts....