by Russell Cummings | Jun 29, 2015 | Business Tips
Creating the ideal organisation is considered to be much like finding the Holy Grail – hard if not impossible. But this didn’t stop Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, experts in Organisational Behaviour, to take up the challenge. Three years and many hundreds of hours of...
by Russell Cummings | Jun 16, 2015 | Business Tips
One of the many obligations for all enterprises – big, small, not for profit or private is making a profit. And everyone involved in these enterprises know that a policy of maintaining the status quo will not produce quality and sustainable profits, and may eventually...
by Russell Cummings | Apr 30, 2015 | Business Tips
How does one steer a person to their potential and then guide them to see a problem as an opportunity? It could be said that personal optimism and pessimism are the defining difference, or maybe it’s a result of employment versus ownership role, or maybe it’s the...
by Russell Cummings | Feb 26, 2015 | Business Tips, Technology
I am always keen to discover new ways that technology can help improve my time management and productivity as these are critical to my business success. As we are all aware, mobility has changed our everyday lives and we are “permanently on”. Smartphones and other...
by James Atkins, Vantage Strategy & Marketing | Oct 23, 2014 | Business Tips
The one question you need to be able to truly answer… “Why would someone buy from me and not the person down the road?” Easy to ask, difficult to answer. Put another way, are you clear on what makes you special? How would you describe your competitive advantage (CA)?...
by Russell Cummings | Sep 5, 2014 | Business Tips, Technology
Numerous sleep experts highlight the benefits of improved alertness and concentration following a 20-30 minute power nap. My challenge has always been that I seem to wake up after the nap – drowsy and anything but alert. Apparently, this is because I drop off...
