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I was chatting to someone the other day and they asked me if my role is to hold people to account? It was a good question and made me think about the way that I work with folks, be it boards, senior leadership teams or directors. My answer was that it’s not so much my role to hold them accountable but rather help them develop a structure that allows them and their team to keep themselves accountable. Because in my view, building a culture of accountability is essential for success in business.

I was chatting to someone recently about them acquiring another business which they are looking at integrating into their current business operation. In the scale of things it would represent about a 25% growth for them.

Cyclone Gabrielle hit Hawke's Bay overnight on Monday 13 February and in the early hours of Tuesday 14 February 2023. This video simply acknowledges those that have suffered, those that have and are still helping, and the community at large.

I was recently chatting to someone who’s team was facing in my view, what could only be described as significant dysfunction. Not where you really want to be as you start into the new year. They are a typical small Hawkes Bay business with no more than ten folk working there.

If you want to improve implementation, don't just look at the nuts and bolts, look at the wider picture and think how can you can actually grow your team, grow your ability to implement, and reach the business outcomes you're after.

It is currently cyber smart week so a good time to be thinking about cyber security and what's happening in your business and is your data safe. Here are two bits of information that may assist you at a board, director or management level to help manage your cyber risk.

You can have all the best plans, you can have all the best strategy, you can have all the best business objectives, you can have the best financial management, the best budgets, have done all the thinking, but there's one thing that makes a difference when it comes to business success in my mind

I'd like to tell you a story about a conversation I had with someone when I first went into business and some words of advice they gave me and they said to me, you might not follow this advice but if you don't there's a good chance you could go bankrupt

Wow it’s hard to believe that as I type this we’re in April and heading fast towards May. That’s the first quarter of the calendar year done and dusted and the start of a new financial year! Where did the past year go?

A while ago I read The Excellence Dividend by Tom Peters, it's a great book and I've talked about it in a previous vlog. For your PDF document CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD