Episode 5: 6 Questions to Recharge Your Strategy in a Changing Market
The reason I’m covering this topic is because all too often I see small business owners – mostly those just starting out - focusing just on sales. All their activities are about getting the sale, [...]
Episode 4: Cash is King but Margin is Queen
The reason I’m covering this topic is because all too often I see small business owners – mostly those just starting out - focusing just on sales. All their activities are about getting the sale, [...]
Episode 3: CEO vs Business Owner – is the difference important?
Are you a CEO or a Business Owner? There are two aspects to this question: one is your title and actually seeing yourself as the CEO; the other is your approach to business growth and leadership. [...]
Episode 2: 3 Strategies for Managing Your Direct Reports
As the CEO, you don't want to micro-manage your team. But 'set and forget' isn't the right strategy either. You need to know what's going on, so having a strategy for how you work with your [...]
Episode 1: How to Get to the Gold with Client Feedback
Feedback from your clients and customers on an ongoing basis is essential for several reasons: - When done the right way, it is seen as a positive thing by your clients as an indicator [...]
6 Questions for a Quick-Start Strategy Recharge
Do not assume that the assumptions you made last year when you developed a 12-month strategy for your business, will remain the same over the next 12 months.. We’ve all experienced a lot of [...]
Making the Shift from 2M to 10M in Turnover
I had the pleasure of interviewing Chad Stephens the other day, co-founder of startups Fillr and 1Form.com. We talked about the shift in thinking to grow a company from 7 figures to 8. When [...]
Know the Numbers – Aligning Company & People KPIs
On a scale of 1-10, how important to you is regular tracking of the numbers in your dashboard? When I work with clients to help them upscale from 7 to 8 figures, they already have good [...]
Innovation Post-Covid in Hospitality
Innovation post-Covid in hospitality... On a 'crisp' winter's morning on the Peninsula I had the pleasure of meeting with Greg O'Donoghue of Green Olive at Red Hill. Although it was an [...]
Making the Shift from 2M to 10M in Turnover
I had the pleasure of interviewing Chad Stephens the other day, co-founder of startups Fillr and 1Form.com. We talked about the shift in thinking to grow a company from 7 figures to 8. When [...]
Be the Leader
Do you think it's difficult making the shift to leader rather than 'doer of everything' when you grow your business? When I inherited my very first team to manage - 5 people - I didn't know [...]
