Your business success and your country: the link?

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Would you run the management of your business the way your government runs your country? I'm serious. Think about it even for just a few minutes. I've been reading off and on today about the UK government's Cabinet reshuffle. Reshuffle is definitely the right word for what's been going on so … [Read more...]

Is your networking not working?

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Or maybe it's not working as consistently well as you'd like? Well you could be in luck because I've discovered there's now a networking University course on offer! I didn't register when I first visited a couple of weeks or so ago because the site seemed to me to want a lot of information from … [Read more...]

Is it “Goodbye” to Solution Selling and “Hello” to Insight Selling?

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There are three real nuggets here that you can use in your business, so I'd stick with this post to the end or bookmark it and come back to it if you're in a rush (or both, if you like :-) !) As is often the case, it started with a not-overtly-enticing breadcrumb... that lead me to a trail of … [Read more...]

Innovation? Forget Silicone Valley USA: Think Sheffield, UK!

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Anyone who's been in sales going back a number of years will be familiar with the oft used scenario of selling widgets in training videos. And we trainee sales people always thought: "How boring!" Imagine then how intrigued I was to read recently about how a Yorkshire man's widget has become a … [Read more...]

Business start ups need this and so do business Neanderthals!

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Regulars here will know that I rarely refer to or get involved with business start ups. In my experience they have so much on their plates with the day-to-day hassles of survival that it's a little while before they come up for air, look around, and see what else is happening that they should maybe … [Read more...]

Is it really any tougher for women in business?

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I hadn't really thought much about challenges, issues or problems that might be specific to women setting up in business. I thought we were light years past all that "We'll need your husband's signature to guarantee your loan" malarky... yet a recent post on Birds made me ponder that well, maybe … [Read more...]

Not getting the results you want?

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The world is changing at, some say, an alarming pace... What worked yesterday might no longer work today and what works today might suddenly not work tomorrow. Is this cause for hand wringing and despair? :-( Not necessarily if we're a) Keeping our eyes open to what's going on around us … [Read more...]