Blog

Welcome to my Blog Page. These posts seek to cover the broad panoply of issues, conundrums and thoughts that occupy the professional service entrepreneur’s mind.

A combination of extracts from my guides and current musings (often provoked by recent happenings at the great companies I now advise to), my aim is to inform and motivate all those who seek to build high performing teams and successful businesses.

I also enjoy responding to specific reader questions … so please feedback and let me know where you would like my mental meanderings to wander to next.

Developing a business planning process

Alas, the essential start-up plan is likely to involve just yourself as the sole author. As your business grows, however, I am strongly advocating that you develop a collaborative planning ethos and capability that includes your entire team. Well coordinated, such an approach is eminently feasible even with large numbers of staff (certainly up to, […]

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What a good business plan looks like …

Of course, there is no definitive answer to what a good business plan looks like, and it’s important you tailor this to your own design, but by way of an illustration, the diagram below sets out the key elements of a comprehensive business plan: Later on in this blog series, I am going to cover […]

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