How to interpret a CV or resume
Pavlo Phitidis studied building science, and at the end of his first year, his lecturer insisted that Pavlo spend his holiday working on building sites – digging trenches, mixing cement…
What is business experience and how can you value it?
Experience holds much promise. When you want to grow, experience can accelerate it. When you are facing challenges that overwhelm you, experience can solve it. What does experience look like?…
Can remote work sustain, or do we go back to onsite work?
When Covid hit, the world shut down. Remote work became a necessity. Across all business, leaders are trying to evaluate the sustainability of it all. Listen to the podcast of…
Getting the right people to do the right thing at the right time, affordably
Unless you are psychic or have more time on your hands than any normal business owner would have, evaluating a potential employee with a CV in hand is a risky…
HOW TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS BY RECRUITING THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING AT THE RIGHT TIME
As a small business owner, your biggest investment will be your staff. How you hire, who you hire, and when you hire, will have the biggest – positive or negative…
Governance gets things done
Here is the story, titled “Whose Job Is It, Anyway?” This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be…
Sailing blind in a storm will crash your business, generate, and use data to give you clarity of thought and action
Crises create chaos in a business. They also threaten a business’s existence. The stress generated from these events is profound and it wears you down to a place and space…
What is the job of a business owner?
If the purpose of the entrepreneur is to create an Asset of Value, how do we get from where we are to the Asset of Value? What is it that…
How to rebuild a team after retrenchments
Covid 19 forced many companies to cut costs but cutting their payroll. For many it started by cutting salaries, and then for some, they had to cut the workforce. This…
HOW TO GET THE RIGHT EMPLOYEES TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS INTO AN ASSET OF VALUE
Tough economic times mean that unemployment is rife. But, as a growing business owner, you’ve noticed that it seems near impossible to find the right kind of people for your company. Unfortunately, the most…