When something isn’t working, doing more of what you’ve done up to now is rarely a good strategy.
Category Archives: Better Business
Going down the tubes
For anything other than trivial problems, the best solutions are more likely to be found outside your area of domain expertise than inside it.
Digging deeper
When you’ve got a problem with your bottom line, the solution is rarely what you think it is at first. Usually you need to dig deeper…
Tricks with numbers
Numbers are often seen as objective, but without context, numbers alone are meaningless.
The real deal
When it comes to managing the bottom line, very few people are the real deal. Mostly it’s people talking about slashing costs or “cutting out the nice to have’s”.
Features vs benefits
The best way to sell your products and services is to focus on the benefits it brings, rather than its features. Not that you’d know if from the way people sell AI solutions at the moment…
Don’t stop ’til you get enough. (Then stop.)
Do you know how much data you need to make a decision? Odds are it’s less than 100% of the information on any subject.
Behavioural Accounting
Understanding human behaviour is a shortcut to much better, bottom-line-boosting business decisions…even for accountants!
Being efficient is very inefficient
Is your next tech investment really going to add value to your bottom line. Despite what the tech salesperson tells you, probably not…
You’re having a laff(er)
Whether you love supply-side/trickle-down economics or hate the concept to your very core, please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the Laffer Curve and trickle-down economics are the same thing.