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BookkeepingThe power of effective bookkeeping: real-life success stories
When a bar owner I worked with went from operating at a loss to turning a profit within one year, it wasn’t just about getting the numbers right—it was about understanding what their business needed and building a system that would set them up for success. Bookkeeping is the foundation of the accounting cycle and […]
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Strengths and Weaknesses in the Workplace
We all have different personalities. Gilligan Sheppard have recently run a Belbin Team Role survey with our leadership team. My results indicated that I can be caring, territorial, helpful, encouraging of others, outgoing, enterprising, over-sensitive, and the list goes on. Others in our team have a different makeup of words. These individual traits are what […]
Do you want your business to be mediocre, or great?
[box] “There’s always someone who knows something.” ― Stephen King “Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.” ― Lemony Snicket “There’s more to getting to where you’re going than just knowing there’s a road.” ― Joan Lowery Nixon [/box] How many […]
Outsourcing in the Philippines
Recently Debra and I made a trip to Clark, Philippines to spend some time with our team there – Grace and Arlyn. My time over there led me to reflect on my experience with outsourcing to the Philippines, the changes that this way of working has brought about and the differences with our two outsource […]
From Soul Destroying to Worthwhile
Recently, I wrote about the challenges of the public works act engagements we are undertaking (click here to read). Since then, a number of people asked why were we still doing what appears to be soul destroying work? I have struggled with answers as to the why, especially after we have made such a big […]
It’s not just you, entrepreneurship is hard
So you’re an entrepreneur. Maybe you decided to change the world. Wanted to put your dent on the universe. Revolutionise something. Maybe you just wanted to stick it to the man, man. But then you discovered something you weren’t expecting. This is hard. You know it’s hard when you find yourself working late and missing […]