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Dealing with stress
I doubt that anyone manages to live their life totally stress free. If you do congratulations, you would be one of a very few unique people. Regardless of the position…
11 Reasons to have a Business Coach/Advisor
As business owners there is only so much you can achieve on your own. You need a sounding board from time to time. Someone that keeps you in check and…
SME Survival in a Covid environment
Some time ago I wrote about Covid and the Economy – here is an updated personal perspective looking to a new financial year. – John Cleghorn The government is talking…
Lockdowns be gone….
Hopefully we are all moving to a position where we can go back to work and start making a dollar or two to make up for the recent difficulties here…
Hospitality – how do we get back to making money?
Hopefully we are all soon moving to a position where we can go back to work and start making a dollar or two to make up for the recent difficulties here in…
The reasons why SMEs succeed with a great Business Advisor
As our world starts to try and understand how to deal with Covid, we as Business owners start to try and understand a new way of going about our daily…
The Torment of not Sleeping
So often we talk to business owners and they tell us of their personal issues. Some of those simple things that without thought, tend to just keep going on in…
Reflect to Achieve Business Success in 2022
Let’s face it, for business owners the last two year haven’t been easy. While some have consistently struggled to keep business going, managing through pivots and some hard choices, others…
Thrive Before Five
This may take you by surprise – a blog article by a business advisor that is NOT about business. Nor about work, or management, or profitability, time management, productivity, efficiency…
Cash Flow Management
One of the biggest reasons for business failure in New Zealand is not businesses not making a profit but would you believe bad cash flow management. This can be caused…
Keeping it fresh!
What a lovely weekend it was weather wise! It was so nice that it inspired my partner and me to walk Orakei Basin as we do once a month on…
Sew, Mow or Row
In your business, are you the: Sewer? (The clothing type – not wastewater!!) Mower? Rower? The Sewer They are the fixers. They spend an extraordinary amount of their time (perhaps…