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Are you cognitively challenged?
I’m not sure why, but there’s a lot written about them. I’m talking about brains (and heads). They’re everywhere. I've got one and so do you. Here are a few stories that caught my attention. They don’t have anything directly to do with my businesses – Bizezia and...
Bad News: The Recession hasn’t really gone away at all
I’ve written before to say that perhaps the recession hasn’t actually gone away: here, here, here, here and again here. We already knew (from what we’ve been told by the papers and on TV) that France was doing badly. But most people thought the Germans were running a...
National Debt in the limelight once again
Last month, I wrote at some length about the UK’s National Debt – see here. We’ve been told that we face a financial Timebomb which is worrying for all of us. I tried very hard to unearth who our creditors are. I discovered that we owed about £1.45 trillion which, to...
Why did you choose the job you’re in?
We’re all different but what motivated you to choose your line of work? A recent survey by the University of Law found that nearly half (49%) of prospective solicitors said that they wanted to become lawyers so that they could help people. And some 61% of aspiring...
Who was William Edwards Deming?
Put simply, he was a man with prodigious knowledge yet was able to express his ideas to those he spoke to in such a way as to bring about profound change. Deming was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. He knew a...
Do as you’ve done before and you’ll get what you deserve…
You’ve heard it thousands of times before. You know, the statement by Henry Ford: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." If you are absolutely happy with what you’ve got, well done. What does the statement mean? It...
I don’t get it: Why make things harder for yourself?
This weekly communication is designed to tickle your marketing glands. But, maybe you’re like some of the people who, when approached a few years ago with the invitation to take a free £5 note…
Please, let nothing interfere with your immediate action.
Please, let nothing, absolutely nothing, interfere with your immediate action. A change for the better fully justifies no delay. Don’t watch others achieve success and make money which you should make too. Get on with it and do it now. Some other time may be too late....
Controlled Immigration Can Reap Rewards
Britain to become Europe’s top economy For some time now, the papers have been banging on about immigration. Control it say several politicians. Ban it altogether suggest others. Yet, the UK’s population boom could make it the EU’s top economy and once again become...
Yes or No to TTIP?
“It’s the biggest trade thing happening right now that most people know very little about.”Have you come across TTIP yet? It stands for the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership and it is on the lips of businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. Lee Williams...
Marketing Round up for Professionals December wk 2
Sunil Bali tells me that award winning journalist and author Will Self said, "Whenever I produce my best work it’s always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing." Is that the same for you? It’s interesting isn’t it? Research by...
The National Debt
We’ve done a lot of fighting and every time we go to war, the national debt goes through the roof. This article is about Britain’s national debt. It was prompted by an announcement that caught my eye last week that “Britain is finally preparing to pay off some of the...
Marketing Round up for Professionals December wk 1
Intro: Steve Jobs, when aged 33, looked in the mirror and thought to himself: For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the...
Do bankers and politicians lie or confabulate?
A few weeks ago, I blogged about brains. Stating the obvious, I said that we humans share a number of things with other humans: we all have a brain. Some brains are bigger or smaller than others, while some brains are better (brainier, if you like) than other brains,...
Marketing Round up for Professionals November wk 4
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
It may be me, of course, but I cannot understand why some firms just don’t bother to treat their clients like customers.
A risk that’s not worth taking
You already know this: accountants and lawyers, who fail to advise properly, leave themselves open to a claim for professional negligence. In the “old days”, negligence claims against accountants or lawyers were rare. Not any more - nowadays, clients and banks or...
Marketing Round up for Professionals November wk 3
Here is my regular round-up of marketing and business promotion issues plus other interesting things over the past week. It provides access to tools you can use right now to promote your firm plus software that will help those endeavours. The really good thing is that...
Charitable Incorporated Organisations: What you may have missed
It seems, from conversations I’ve had recently, that many professionals – accountants and lawyers included – are not up to speed with the changes last year that affect unincorporated organisations. Here’s a brief introduction which I hope you’ll find useful. As ever,...
Marketing Round up for Professionals November wk 1
The Boot Camp team returns: Paul Dunn to join Ric Payne again! After 15 years Paul Dunn [pictured] and Ric Payne are again collaborating to continue the work they started more than 25 years ago. The Australian pair are widely recognised as having a trans-formative...
Taking the British Public for Fools
Is it smoke and mirrors or something more sinister? On hearing the Chancellor’s report on negotiations with the powers that be in Europe on the budget top-up payment we are to make, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls claimed the Chancellor was "trying to take the British...
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