By working on strategy, structure and leadership rather than trying to do everything ourselves as owners eventually we should be able to stop working in the business. This means having a plan, putting in systems, training employees to do things rather than doing them yourself. The advice to work smarter rather than harder is all

I would be bold enough to suggest that because symptoms present themselves, they need to be dealt with and the strategy is to do just that and inadvertently the real problem never gets a look in. However, just dealing with symptoms will mean that eventually the cause of your problem will come back at some

As usual, the talks that I have delivered over this period have been wide and diverse. I have spoken to school children motivating them for exams,  discussed strategic thinkers over the last 40 years with master degrees students at university, been a key note speaker at a business conference, launched  a community initiative, undertaken commentary

Less than 0.7% of the population according to research organisation Tulip Financial Research have a net asset value greater than £665 000 not including their home. So when we speak of millionaires do we mean people that live millionaire lifestyles but do not have assets to match? I can remember paying myself my first six

MINI characters focus too much on the past. The problem with this is that you can pay too much attention to the things that you wish you had done and past regrets may hold you back. A common phrase for people with this affliction is, if only I had………then life would be so different. Equally

Are you fed up with not achieving your goals? You follow everything that I and many other personal development coaches have told you. They encourage you to; dream big, write your goals down, set a deadline, anticipate the barriers and create a plan that you monitor regularly. But for so many people this doesn’t seem