Selling your business? Sometimes you only get to do this once. It’s important to make sure you do it right. Lessons from selling my business Last month I shared a post on LinkedIn about an up-coming meeting of the Value Builder Board I co-chair with Martin Allison. One of our board members, Matt Driver, was […]
Read full story The importance of Values in your business: He recruited enough accountants to have a 5-a-side football team! Many years ago, a MD of a print business recruited at least 5 different accountants / book-keepers to run his finance function. These were sequential appointments for the same role. I said to the MD that the common […]
Read full story There’s a business owner I know who was feeling stressed about their business. Specifically, it was about the team not completing their day-to-day tasks on time, or people not following through on the commitments they made. There was no accountability. Also, mistakes were made too often, and nobody was grabbing a problem and sorting it […]
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As a business owner I know many other business owners, some of whom I work with as an advisor. Many of us worked for a boss in the past. We naturally looked to them for some direction and often had to get approval for things like recruitment, spending a lot of money beyond a budget, […]
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In my last blog I talked about how you, as the boss, should apply a model of accountability. That model focuses on: having clarity of expectations between you and your team regularly monitoring those expectations In this blog, I want to talk about a much trickier subject…how you, as the boss, hold yourself accountable. Accountability […]
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As I’m sure you know, I spend a lot of my time talking and working with business owners. Two of the most common words that come up in those conversations are: Structure: being more organised, people knowing their job; Accountability: staff don’t take on enough responsibility, they get away with underperforming. Accountability Is So Important […]
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