This article is about understanding the stakeholders in your business and how we can influence them. What is a stakeholder? According to BusinessDictionary.com, stakeholders in...
Do you need a Business Advisory Council for your business?
Many family businesses suffer from “loneliness at the top” and a lack of external input that can compromise business growth and performance. One option that...
How Mobile Apps Changed the World
Smartphones and mobile applications are the latest buzz in the cellphone world and are already a part of almost everyone’s personal lives and businesses. In...
How to Deal with the Leadership Shift
Businesses are under increasing stress as markets are increasingly volatile, clients are more demanding, talent is scarcer and change occurs in faster and shorter cycles....
How to Make Your Social Media Work For You – Without Becoming a Slave to It
You can use Social Media as an important part of marketing and sales efforts in your business to produce new leads and higher conversions. Or...
The Leadership Dilemma – Management or Leadership?
Today, businesses are run by very competent people who are not necessarily Ghandi or Nelson Mandela but who seem to drive their businesses to success,...
Top 3 Business Issues for 2013
In 2012, before the year ended, Mindshop (www.mindshop.com) conducted a global survey across Australia, NZ, UK and the USA of business leaders involved in various...
Planning for 2013
Developing plans is a great way to start the New Year. In my business blog last year, I walked my readers through a simple planning...
KanBan Flow
Looking for a simple and effective tool that can help you with task and time management? If you are, then KanBan Flow is the perfect...
Understanding Consumer Preferences
Understanding consumer preferences is a tricky process. We often strive to find the "perfect product or service" without realising that their are often many "perfect...