Edition 449 – Stuck In The Weeds
Too many small and family business owners are stuck in the weeds. They’re too busy applying themselves operationally, and spending little to no time, thinking, then planning strategically.
Edition 448 – Front End Vs. Back End
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In my ongoing quest for learning, I started following the work of a respected, US based organisation around two years ago, on the recommendation of a good friend and colleague.
Edition 447 – Stinkers
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I caught up with a former client recently, for breakfast at Coogee in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. He’s a young bloke who was courageous enough to take the leap from the security of paid employment, and chase his dream of running his own business.
Edition 446 – Bureaucratic Officiousness
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I recently attended a one day training event for CPA Australia at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It was held in their new, multi million dollar extension, located next door to the grand old building that has sat across the road from Sydney’s Domain since the late 1890’s.
Edition 445 – Courage
Written by Dean Robinson on . Posted in Growth Newsletter.
You’ve been in business 10 years. Maybe longer. You know what it takes to make your business tick over. Get the work in the door, do it as efficiently and effectively as possible. Send it back out again.
Edition 444 – Winning At The Slowest Speed
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If you know me, you know that I love motor sport. I’m probably a little less passionate than I once was, and don’t watch it as much as I have done in the past, however it’s still my number one sport.
Edition 443 – Listen Up
Written by Dean Robinson on . Posted in Growth Newsletter.
When I’m working with our clients, I love it when I’m right! Not because my ego is severely lacking. It means we have a breakthrough…a real “a-ha” moment, from the client.
Edition 442 – Ready, Set, No!
Written by Dean Robinson on . Posted in Growth Newsletter.
With the work we undertake with one of our great clients, they send us their Dashboard, each day, that summarises what has happened in the business, that day. It contains key financial and non-financial data, which they transpose from their in-house software system, and generally provide some commentary about the day’s happenings in the business.
Edition 441- Stupid Corporate Decisions
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One of our great clients is in the retail space, specialising in health care. They’re a niche business and the owners not only have incredible knowledge of the industry, the products and their clientele, but are also passionate about it.
Edition 440 – The Purposeful Shift
Written by Dean Robinson on . Posted in Growth Newsletter.
One of the things that has struck me about small and family business owners, over the years, is how unhappy so many of them are in their business, and in their lives.