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Do you want your business to be like a formula one race car and a formula one team or do you want to be driving out some clapped out old dunga, New Zealand slang for an old car.

Benjamin Franklin once said if you fail to plan you plan to fail, so here are 7 simple tips to help you get a business plan done that sets some objectives for the coming year.

I was having a look back through Tom Peters The Excellence Dividend the other day and came across a story that I thought I'd share with you. It comes in relation to JP Morgan who was an American industrialist in the late 1800s early 1900s and the story goes how a person approached him with an envelope and asked him for twenty five thousand dollars, back in those days which is about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in today's funds.

Well kia ora folks. I was reading an article from Boardworks the other day and it was questioning or talking about why is it that some people don't feel comfortable expressing their opinion in meetings and going with groupthink. So here's today's video where I address this issue.

I was reading an article from McKinsey the other day and it posed the question that because we live in a world with so much information why is it that we seem to be really busy but sometimes feel we're not getting a lot of stuff done?

Without wanting to have a political spin in this email newsletter, it is great to see those businesses north of the Auckland border getting ready to open up with DHB vaccination rates moving past the 90% threshold.

Over the years there have been many stories about how the 2003 British cycling team went from mediocre to world beating. How did they do it?

Ditch the Strategic Plan & Watch Sales go from $850k to $5.5m! In this video I'm going to tell you about some folks who've thrown that strategic plan out the window and their business has gone from 850k to just over $5.5m in that period of time. Let me tell you what they've done ...

In my April 2021 Autumn Update I outlined how I saw the Hawke's Bay business climate as we headed towards Winter – READ IT HERE.And without wanting to sound like a clairvoyant, things have pretty much turned out as I predicted.

I thought I would tell you the story of two businesses, Business A and Business B. They're both pretty similar, turnover around that five million dollar mark, shareholders and directors working in the business, both of them have around 15 or 20 staff and although they're in different industries they have to do similar things well for their customers.