In this lesson, Brian MacNeice, an expert on driving improvements in performance focus and culture in high performing organisations, discusses one of the elements that creates the condition for long-term performance advantage over your competitors.
What’s the difference between Business Vision, Strategy and Tactics?
In this lesson, Guy Rigby – chartered accountant, entrepreneur, author, mentor and advisor to dynamic owner-managed businesses – sets out the essentials to building and selling a business.
What’s important in building a business to sell?
If you are looking to build a business which you eventually want to sell, what are the things you should be thinking about, almost from day one? In this, the last lesson of the series, Guy Rigby – a chartered accountant, entrepreneur, author, mentor and advisor to dynamic owner-managed businesses – sets out the steps towards a profitable exit
What are the risks incurred when expanding a company via acquisition?
In this lesson, Guy explains the opportunities but more importantly, the pitfalls involved when buying another company.
What is network thinking?
In this lesson, Guy Rigby explains how Network thinking reflects the modern approach to business (Open, Random and Supportive).
What are the key ingredients of getting the right team together?
In this lesson, Guy Rigby explains various strategies for putting a team together, that is, once you have made sure you don’t run out of cash.
How important is business planning?
If most people acknowledge that the business plan you have today won’t look the same two years from now, why bother with one at all?
Achieving continuous improvement
What more do market leaders need to do to maintain their performance advantage? In this lesson, Brian MacNeice discusses the characteristics of successful organizations that are continually striving to improve and to keep getting better.
The importance of effective teams
To remain consistently successful, every high performing organization ideally needs a team that works effectively together. In this lesson, Brian MacNeice, an expert on driving improvements in performance focus and culture in high performing organisations discusses the insights that he gleaned into teamwork from looking at the organisations he studied.
The culture of performance
How much do you and your colleagues really get down to discussing your organisation’s performance – is it only at the annual review or the half-yearly appraisal? In this lesson, Brian MacNeice – an expert on driving improvements in performance focus and culture in high performing organisations – discusses the cultural idea of performance.
