You might want to print these off – or bookmark this page for future reference. And make sure your sales people see this first chart before they give a discount!! for example, if you are making 5% profit and you give a price discount of 3%, you’ve got to sell an extra 130% to make […]
Management Vegetables – want a talk?
My Book of Management Vegetables is available! in paper form and on amazon kindle (view on any device using kindle app) – ….and talks based on it are available NOW, as follows: – The Plum of Performance Leadership 10 mins How praise works better than blame The Goals Grapefruit Success / Time Management 10 mins Much […]
The Fennel of Failure
While contemplating the Fennel of Failure for my new book, “Management Vegetables” (nearly ready!) I was thinking about how the six causes of failure in life might relate to personality type… Stemming from Lack of Self Esteem and Lack of Goals, these are the six causes: Fearfulness leading to lack of courage when needed, and […]
“My day never goes as planned”
I sometimes hear “There’s no point in Time Management, no point in planning ahead, because my day never goes as planned”. I have four things to say about that, which I hope will help: 1 – Get better at saying No, or at least negotiating. Many interruptions can be rejected or pushed out into tomorrow […]
Why is your boss so mean?
People often say to me that their boss or their company is mean: “All we want is a 5% payrise” or “All we want is one more person to help in our team of 20”. But both of these would mean a 5% increase in costs, and if you’re making only 5% profit this would […]
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