Category Archives: Better Business

The fundamental problem in many businesses is that they think they live in a quantitative world, when the reality is we live in a qualitative world.

Too many people think it’s all about the numbers, when the reality is the numbers come second.

Plenty of people think they can just “copy the secrets” of another business, or apply what they did in a previous role by rote in their new role, and still see the same results. All my experience is that is almost never true.

Sometimes cheaper isn’t better…especially when you’re trying to make a sale…

If your bottom line is under pressure and you think the time has come to launch an organisation-wide cost cutting plan, here are 5 common traps people fall into when they move into cost cutting mode.

When you’re sitting in a conference room, the activities taking place in a factory hundreds of miles away seem very small. If those same people were sitting inside the factory themselves, the problems would look enormous, and those in Head Office would look very small by comparison.

There’s an old proverb: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”.

If that’s true, then I reckon the highway to hell must be paved with logic.

Do your KPIs inform your views of performance in your organisation, or do they just excuse whatever you might be doing now?

Despite what the AI bustle bros would have you believe, tech is a perfect answer for only a vanishingly small number of the world’s problems.

Optimising business performance is harder than it looks, but a handle of key insights often makes the difference between success and failure.

It’s tempting to think that if you do everything right, success is inevitable. But, sadly, running a business is never that simple…