When Bill Gates first met Warren Buffet a strange thing happened. Somebody who was also there asked them to write down the one thing that most contributed to their success. They both wrote the same word – FOCUS.
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How to be effective in business in one word
Tagged with: effectiveness, Focus
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Personal Development, Time Management
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Personal Development, Time Management
It’s Easter – a time to reflect perhaps?
Are we as effective as we can be? That’s about doing the right things, right; right? (A big nod to Peter Drucker there). In other words: keeping on mission. So why don’t we do that then? Three reasons. 1 Sometimes…
One big reason people underachieve in business (plus the remedy)
In today’s business world everybody is busy with day-to-day stuff. All urgent and all in our faces. Emails, mobile phones, social media and back-to-back meetings might make you feel busy but there’s a downside to this. A MASSIVE downside! In…
3 things to coax people out of their comfort zone
The hardest part of moving people out of their comfort zones is getting them to take the first step, here’s a tip on how to make that happen.
Tagged with: Comfort zone, positive thinking, Success, work smarter
Posted in 1 Foundations For Growth, Behavioural Change, Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Personal Development
Posted in 1 Foundations For Growth, Behavioural Change, Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Personal Development
The Secret Power Of Persuasion
First thing to say this is not a political blog post but it does draw on the remarkable UK General Election of June 2017. Why did the Tories lose when they started off in such a super-strong position? How did…
Posted in Efficiency & Effectiveness, Mike's Take On
Positive Deviation: how to massively improve anything
Positive deviation is a little know way of dramatically improving the performance of your team. Be ahead of the curve!
Tagged with: positive deviance, positive deviation, process improvement
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness
5 proven tools to make you more productive online
Some free online tools to help you get more of your emails opened and blogs read.
Tagged with: blog tools, blogs, Communication, cool tools, efficiency, email subject lines, getting emails opened, online tool, opening blogs, writing blog titles
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Sales Communication
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Sales Communication
How to hunt more new clients when you have no time
Many of us struggle to find the time to do those new business calls. In this post find out why this is and how you can avoid it.
20 second tip that could save you months of effort
This one little tip that takes 20 seconds to do could just save you acres of time.
7 Handy tips for making your meetings more effective
Meetings can be a minefield of frustration and wasted time. Here’s a simple tip that will help a little.