‘How to win at marketing and drive more sales?’: this must be the most frequently asked business question of all time. Every individual and Organisation wants their Marketing to make life easier and drive success to them Yet time and time again we see massive under-performance in actual results versus prospective results. So, in this […]
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Business Karma
Business Karma The Dalai Lama writes: ‘The word ‘Karma’ simply means ‘action’. So when we talk about our ‘Karma’ we are talking about our intentional (and unintentional) acts of body, speech and mind. And when we talk about the fruits of our Karma, we are talking about the consequences of those acts.’ The same is […]
How can I develop my management skills?
How can I develop my management skills? I would guess that we all want to be better managers – after all, better managers get better results with less effort! So what do you need to do to become one? Here are a few rules and ideas for you. Remember all employees are volunteers – they […]
How can we measure success?
How can we measure success? How can we measure success? Is this not the most important question in the universe? After all, what gets measured gets done. So, really the answer to this question lies in another question: what does ‘success’ mean to you? If success just means ‘as much money as possible’, then the […]
Measures
There is an old saying: ‘What gets measured gets done’ … and it’s completely true. When the NHS in the UK started measuring patient wait times, the wait times went down (Hooray!) … but patient health (and death rates) went up! When Continental Airlines started measuring on-time performance (and offered a small incentive to all […]