Dead Money
Most business failures result from a shortage of cash. To patch the cash holes, we run to the banks for higher overdrafts, factor our debtors, raise trade finance, enter buy and leaseback arrangements … or make any one of several other inventive financial arrangements. It is tragic that not enough attention is paid to identifying …. Read More
Don’t get tripped up.
We all have that small inner voice which guides us to always do the right thing but all too often we elect to ignore it and in the process are responsible for tripping ourselves up. In analysing all the ‘unique’ situations where you have fallen, you will undoubtedly be able to identify with either one, or …. Read More
Leadership
Leaders are a scarce resource in the business environment – managers come at twenty to the dozen. Leaders inspire people with an emotional desire to follow them with enthusiasm and fervour. They automatically extract the best out of their followers – even when they are not physically present with their teams. Can you go away …. Read More
Opportunity Cost
Oh, he was so lucky – he was in the right pace at the right time! Absolute nonsense! Count the number of times lady luck visits you in any week and you will realise that you create your own luck! The difference between ‘he’ and you is that ‘he’ acted upon one of the opportunities …. Read More
Four Pillars of Partnership
There are 17 things that will stop you dead in your tracks and prevent you from developing your business into a resounding success. Chief amongst these is ‘trying to do it all by yourself’! We just seem to lose sight of the fact that any sound business must rest on four vital pillars of partnership. …. Read More
A Definite Chief Aim
It is sad to observe the number of businesses that play out their brief lives by morphing from day to day without any clue as to what their destination is. No wonder they go out of business, destroying hopes, and dreams in the process. These entities operate without a definite chief aim and have no …. Read More
Good staff are hard to find!
The heart of every employer goes out to the person who does his work when the “boss” is away and the person who, when given any task to perform, no matter how difficult or mundane, quietly takes the opportunity, without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of finding the easiest way out, …. Read More
Maintain Balance
Everything in the universe was created in opposites. No matter what you look at in physics, nature or our daily lives, everything has an opposite. The old folk understood this factor well and that is why they always used to say ‘anything in moderation, and nothing in excess’. They understood the need to maintain balance! …. Read More
The penalty for sin is DEATH!
The age in which we live seems to be the age of money worship. A man is considered less than the dust of the earth unless he can display a fat bank account. So eager are we to possess wealth that we will acquire it in whatever manner we can, through legal methods, if possible, …. Read More
Discipline
Whenever we read of the great leaders of the past, we feel moved, inspired and even fearful. These great leaders ignited the passion of their followers … was it through their vision, their strategy, or their powerful ideas? All of these played a vital role, but the cornerstone of their reign was found in a …. Read More