Owning our mistakes–not an earnest business blog
We all make mistakes. We try not to, but admitting to failure is a way of helping us to do better. Fortunately for most of us, the errors we make will be relatively minor in our work activities, but a...
View ArticleWorkplace tribalism
In the week that we learn from the CBI that 38% of small businesses have laid off staff in the last quarter of 2008. Workplace tribalism many of us will feel uncomfortable over the strikes at the oil...
View ArticleDispatches from the front – age discrimination
Some of you may have seen a Channel 4 Dispatches episode this week about age discrimination, mainly not in the workplace (which is covered by Government legislation) but discrimination preventing more...
View ArticleBeing lucky!
As I have been telling everyone, notably on Twitter, I have had a lot of problems with IT over the last three weeks. I am pretty dependent on the technology working to keep my business running...
View ArticleWhy your brand and your USP are important
Have you ever been confused by a marketing message or an advertisement that seemed out of place with the product? My on-line and sometimes off-line friend Rod Sloane quite rightly described McDonalds’...
View ArticleWhy we should not always take the easy way in business
If you are as lucky as I am, you will enjoy your work and running your own business. We have at least some control of our destiny even given the trials and tribulations of the economic downturn....
View ArticleYou are more versatile than you think
As we know, there is far less job security these days. It is not just because of the recession and hard economic times. There is less of a tradition of working for one employer one’s whole life. People...
View ArticlePersonality, marketing and business principles
Those who know me well are aware that I prefer a logical approach to my work and pay attention to detail. That is the nature of the business I am in, helping people with their tax problems and teasing...
View ArticleDon’t follow your dream? You can if you plan it.
Life by the sea I am all in favour of dreams. I have them myself. The trouble is that as a tax and business adviser, I have come across a lot of shattered dreams. Life by the sea I was reminded of...
View ArticleShort-term business follies
Over-sized garden folly Sometimes I meet people who do not so much have a business plan as be after just making a fast buck. They try to follow every trend, or start implementing a strategy they just...
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