This Week@Work, setting your business apart in a crowded market is vital if you want to grow. Building your commercial systems to enable it, even more so. Sourcing the blueprint for how your business systems will be built, is the key that unlocks your scale and growth, or a chaotic nightmare.
Innovation creates something more for the same price, OR the same for a better price. It means you should constantly create, test, experiment, and improve what you already have….even if it works. It’s a practice and mindset and the key to unlocking the excitement your business needs to attract talent, suppliers, and customers and make it more interesting for you.
This Week@Work my meetings with long-established business owners have left me concerned about their runway to an exit.
They have spent their careers focused on operational issues to generate income to sustain the business. Only now are they realising they should have been focused on growth and capital value to secure a profitable exit. W
hat are you spending your time on?.
This Week@Work I met with a business owner who is deeply frustrated because his business has outgrown the ‘chassis’ or business model that it was originally built on.
As our business’s grow, we’ll all face this, you can’t stop running the business to rebuild the chassis, we have to build while we fly.
This Week@Work, a rusty bike chain made me think of Zig Ziglar, who started out as a door-to-door salesperson.
Zig understood the art of hunting for business, something that most business owners have gotten rusty at since we started to rely on digital media to bring business to our door.
This Week@Work at a large gathering of business owners, the discussion centered on where to find growth in low or no-growth business environments.
Watch as I share three points on what you need to do, and where you need to look to find the opportunities in such circumstances, to get ahead of your competition.
This Week@Work, I facilitated a business battleplan with a room full of warriors, also known as business owners! The discussions about growth reiterated the same three big challenges to growth that I see over and over again, all over the world. Understand them, and build a battleplan to overcome them.
This Week@Work I met with a business whose owners believed they were doing well enough, and didn’t need to focus on growth. I used the analogy of a white ant to show them that in an inflationary environment there is no option but to grow, if they want to maintain their value.
Watch as I share the analogy and remember to always be growing!
