Finance

For many business owners, numbers can feel like abstract figures on a page -disconnected from the real-world challenges and opportunities their business faces. Yet, numbers are much more than mere data; they tell the story of your business’s health, performance, [...]

Managing finance is a critical part of running a successful business, yet many entrepreneurs find this area especially challenging. Despite its importance, finance often feels like a daunting maze filled with complex jargon, intimidating reports, and high-stakes decisions. Without clear [...]

Debt can feel like a shadow looming over every aspect of our lives, from the personal to the professional. It's that unwelcome guest at the dinner table, the constant nagging at the back of our minds. We label our experiences [...]

As an entrepreneur, you're often told it's not about the money—until there is none. That's when you realise that while money isn't everything, it certainly becomes the only thing when it's missing. This stark reality is something I've come to [...]

Unless you are one of the few people who were lucky enough to receive a large inheritance, won the lottery, or married into money, you will need to create your own wealth. This is not the easiest of goals given the [...]

Every year, without fail, you and I get letters from all sorts of corporate companies we deal with and every year, they all sing from the same hymn sheet:  “Blah blah blah your new price increase will be X and [...]

"You guys are too busy to make money"​ This statement took the wind out of my sails when our financial director said it to my partners and I in another business over a decade ago. He was 100% right, we [...]

I love it when people say to me: "but Harry, it's not about the money." Really?!  Do you actually believe that? Now I'm the first to support that money isn't everything. There are a lot of things that are important. [...]

As we find ourselves in the month of Freedom, it is only apt that we reflect on what Freedom means for us in our businesses. To start with, a reminder that ActionCOACH's definition of a successful business is: “A Commercial [...]

In business, it’s not uncommon to have millions of Rands worth of turnover without generating adequate cash flow to support business growth. It’s a well-known fact that growth in any type of business consumes cash which according to Verne Harnish [...]

So what exactly is a "Small Business Lone Ranger?"  A "Small Business Lone Ranger" is a business owner who does all the work themselves. No matter how big or small the project, the Lone Ranger handles 100% of it. Either [...]

People ask: What stage of a life cycle is considered to be adulthood? Research results say: “Adulthood is the period in the human lifespan in which full physical and intellectual maturity have been attained. Adulthood is commonly thought of as [...]

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 [...]

The majority of business owners we—as business coaches—get to interact with, work extremely hard to increase their profits, and the sad part is that they don't realise that they are missing the opportunity to make huge gains on their bottom line by simply not leveraging [...]

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 [...]

As a business owner, do you truly believe you could have or even deserve freedom? Do you know what real freedom actually tastes like? As a business coach for more than a decade, I have more often than not, discovered [...]