Category Archives: Strategy

It’s Time to Start Planning for Success!

It’s that time of year again! It’s time to start planning for success so that we’re ready to bound into action as soon as the final peal of the bells finish welcoming in the new year – or at least that’s the theory   I hope this post (and the little gift at the bottom of…

Change … are you doing enough of it?

Blockbuster laughed at Netflix when they offered to form a partnership in 2000 and just 10 years later found themselves filing for bankruptcy with debts of a staggering $1 billion. Blockbuster thought they had a successful business model that would never change and that people would always want to rent Videos, then DVDs and computer games. You’d…

The wrong sort of planning

This is an article I wrote a while ago, but I wanted to dust it off as we begin a new year.  Most business owners I know (including me!) have spent some time over the past couple of weeks carefully planning out the next 12 months.  While this is definitely a good thing to do,…