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Five Steps to turn your Strategic Initiative into Execution Success
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results – this famous quote by Sir Winston Churchill often comes to my mind when I participate in strategy presentations. Beautiful slideware beautifully presented for maximum impact – but hey! Wasn’t...
Five Rock n Roll Songs that can help you…Rock and Roll – “Rock n Roll ain’t noise pollution…..
...rock n roll ain’t gonna die”… I was 18 when I heard the song for the first time on my trusty Sony Walkman (yes… I was born in the 80s and no one around me was spinning wax anymore 🙂 ) and as Brian Johnson crooned along the crunchy guitar riffs, I thought to myself...
Business Operations Performance Metrics: Employee Satisfaction – Five Leadership Tips to Lead Remote Teams with Ease
Employee turnover or attrition is one of the biggest factors that limit an organization’s growth trajectories. With the pressure on margins and the competition for talent, it makes a lot of sense to explore and implement strategies that work as well as or better than...
Five Life Skills that can Give Wings to your Career
"Life skills" are defined as psychosocial abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. They are loosely grouped into three broad categories of skills: cognitive skills for...
Business Operations Performance Metrics: Gross Margin – Five Steps to Improve your Margin
~~The success combination in business is: Do what you do better and do more of what you do. David Joseph Schwartz ~~ Margin improvement – this phrase usually conjures up images of budget cuts and lay-offs – and strikes fear in the hearts of the toughest managers. ...
Five Mood-Killers that Stop you from being Happy in the Now
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet~ More and more, I have come to realize that happiness is a choice; it lies inside us just waiting to be tapped...
Business Operations Performance Metrics: Cash Flow – Five Steps to Improve your DSO
Happiness is a positive cash flow ~ (Fred Adler - Venture capitalist) ~ Most of us in business or in sales have heard this – Revenue is vanity, Margin is sanity and …Cash is king. I have written about the importance of tracking cash flow related metrics in one of my...
Five Pointers to Asking Questions the Right Way to get the Right Answers for your Business
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers ~Tony Robbins In the ideal world, we would all have all the answers. Every brand manager would know when and how to launch a new product, why some ideas click and some don’t, and why...
Five Considerations that can Make or Break your Business Budget – Business Operations Performance Management
An annual budget is like a map for the business. Miss the directions on the map and you may land up in places best left uncharted. But how do we ensure that the directions on the map are right in the first place? A lot of focus is given on the financial nitty-gritty...
Five Strategies to be Happy in the Face of All Odds
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging ~ Joseph Campbell Have you ever wondered how some people seem to sail through their lives with a smile on their lips and a song in their hearts come what may? Look around you...