Business Strategies

We are all familiar with the seasons: Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring. If we think about it, applying seasonal cycles to business makes a lot of sense. Just like farming, each business has the same cycle: growth or recovery (spring), [...]

As I am writing this blog, winter has arrived in Cape Town with a bang, which means rain, cold fronts, and fewer daylight hours compared to the summer months. People travel to work and drop off their kids at school [...]

Several people have the desire to become an entrepreneur because they view it as a pathway to wealth building. In my locality, Nigeria, we recognise that entrepreneurs are people such as Aliko Dangote of Dangote Group, Oba Otudeko of Honeywell Group, and Abdulsamad Rabiu of BUA Group. All these well-known entrepreneurs started out as small trading businesses and grew into conglomerates operating across various [...]

You’ve heard it all before – a few steps to do this and five ways to do that – all designed to help you to succeed in one way or another. However, the point is that when a program has [...]

Think of a 911 Porsche. The Porsche 911, launched in 1963, traces its roots back to the 356 Porsche of the 1950s which actually shared a drivetrain with the Volkswagen Beetle. Similar underpinnings but a vastly different package. Which would [...]

If I remember my primary school history class correctly, it was a French philosopher Rousseau who said, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”   Whether taxes, civil responsibility, or the responsibility for people, the carefree freedom we enjoy as children, teenagers, [...]

Do you think you have an exceptional team working for your business? On a professional level, a winning team is made up of team members that achieve exceptional results against all odds. In great teams, we find a high level [...]

Freedom, in general, can be said as the state of being free, or not being imprisoned or enslaved. It could as well be interpreted as the ability to act without restriction. Something is "free" if it can easily be altered [...]

The concept of TEAM is so important in ActionCOACH that Teamwork is one of the pillars in our 14 Points of Culture. We define Teamwork as: "I am truly responsible for my actions and outcomes and own everything that takes place in [...]

During the Navy Seals infamous ‘Hell Week’, the students are grouped into boat crews of seven men with each boat crew being assigned an Inflatable Rubber Boat (IRB). The highest-ranking student in each boat crew is the leader, responsible for getting [...]

If you think about any game or sport there are always rules to ensure that all the members on both teams know how things are meant to work. Can you imagine the chaos that will happen if a game of [...]

As I write this, it is the last working day of the financial year-end for most business owners. The mad rush to get your finances into final shape for the close off is almost complete and you are looking forward [...]

As a business owner, you have no doubt experienced this nightmare scenario; an empty chair. Either a team member has resigned or you have created a new position within the organisation that will help you grow and better serve your customers.    Here's a [...]

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Wow, can you believe that 2020 is almost behind us? It has been an extreme year for many of us, but we have pulled through. In 2020, many businesses started popping up, due to numerous people being retrenched from their [...]