We are continually having to look at our costs, what is necessary vs obsolete as we emerge back from lockdown and embrace a hybrid world. Whether you are having to renegotiate your office lease, your copier agreement, since you have gone...
How to Negotiate Smarter
What is your SMaC recipe?
Do you know what a SMaC recipe is and if so, do you have one? SMaC stands for Specific, Methodical and Consistent and it is a concept developed by the business expert, Jim Collins. He outlined it in his bestselling book,...
What is no BCD – and why your business needs it.
I am always constantly striving to learn and educate myself as an entrepreneur, so I applied and was accepted into the EO Entrepreneurial Masters Programme. One of the speakers shared his story, and in his talk, I learned an acronym which...
New year, new business strategy
As we settle into the new year, I have been considering the difference between business now and business at the start of 2020, and how business strategy has changed. In my experience, businesses have figured out how to adapt and change...
Help get your business event ready
Are you building a business which you want to scale to a lucrative exit via trade-sale, PE backed roll-up, AIM listing, or even sponsoring an MBO? Do you have a strong succession plan in place? Are you laying the foundations to...
Two pieces of advice for start-ups
I was asked this week the advice I would have given myself when I started my first business – my advice for start-ups. There are two pieces, which are just as relevant for established businesses to remember, well as people who...