CEOs – The Silver Bullet – What is Your Killer Feature?
In the past few years Blackberry, Nokia, Microsoft, Yahoo, MySpace have all suffered serious set backs to their fortunes. I’m sure you could name a dozen businesses from your own manufacturing, service, product, software sectors that have struggled to keep...
CEOs – Are you driving sales?
I get the opportunity to work with talented CEOs and many of my portfolio companies are achieving great success in a difficult economy. However I sense there is always a worry in the head of the CEO that staff are really engaged in the subject of sales growth. Often...
Linking Strategy & Execution – The Bootcamp Speech
“We are all entrepreneurs but only the lucky ones know they are” Muhammad Yunus Nobel Prize winner & Founder Grameen Bank. The degree of difficulty of building a business worth $10m or more is almost impossible. You may look at a few superstars...
Bootcamp IV – Cambridge Innovation Center March 30th
Give yourself Friday 30th off – get away from the office and come along to the Bootcamp event at the Cambridge Innovation Center from 11:00am to 6:00pm . Book here Business Fundamentals Bootcamp IV. Theme – “Growth Through Innovation”. My session is...
How to be a better CFO – Questions You Need To Answer
The CEO’s job is becoming too complicated. Our leaders need help and I believe the CFO role needs to be redefined to reflect this new complicated world. What do I mean by redefined? I mean the role of the CFO should be to simplify the noise and make sense of the...
Bootcamp IV – Cambridge Innovation Center March 30th
I will be presenting at the upcoming Business Fundamentals Bootcamp IV that will be held on March 30th, 2012 from 11:00am to 6:00pm at the Cambridge Innovation Center. The theme of this year’s event is “Growth Through Innovation”. BFBC IV’s panel will examine the...
Bootcamp IV – Cambridge Innovation Center March 30th
I will be presenting at the upcoming Business Fundamentals Bootcamp IV that will be held on March 30th, 2012 from 11:00am to 6:00pm at the Cambridge Innovation Center. The theme of this year’s event is “Growth Through Innovation”. BFBC IV’s panel will examine the...
Blog Posts – Where Do You Find Topics?
Where do you find great ideas for a daily or weekly blog? Here is a checklist of sources you might find useful. Once you’ve listed your top 50, I would recommend listing them in a simple editorial calendar like this: Appoint authors for each post and an overall...
The Best and The Worst Can Hide Reality
Standard & Poor companies posted a 6.6% rise in 4th quarter earnings in 2011 but if you excluded one company, Apple, the growth figure shrinks to 2.8%. The reality of the S&P 500 earnings growth is far less impressive. What could you see better by stripping...Operational Excellence For Exits
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