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What Are You hungry For? Time To Press The “renew” Button!
As individuals, to different extents and differing at different times in our lives, we are hungry for survival, security, a sense of belonging, sig...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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How We Helped a Client Get Ready For Scale-up
A group driven strategy is a must for any successful business – even more so when we have plans for scaling-up. Likely these will be driven by our ...
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What Is An Exit Strategy, and How Do You Plan It?
Entrepreneurs have many reasons for creating a business – ranging from ‘funding a lifestyle’ to ‘industry domination’. Whatever the initial opportu...
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José Lehmani
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What Technological Innovations Can We Adopt Post-lockdown?
For working together to get the work done Through this period of social distancing and remote working, we have had to reinvent how we work togethe...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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6 Reasons to Refresh Your Strategy Now
I hear you ask in return: Why is strategic planning important during times of uncertainty? Well, there is something in the old adage: if you fai...
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Jim Rathbone
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10 Strategic Innovations From Lockdown
A mantra calls back as we emerge from lockdown: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste; … it's an opportunity to do things you didn’t think you co...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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6 Steps to Successful Goal Setting
How can you have meaningful goals that make a real impact on your business? 1. Recognise the importance of having goals. Goals keep us energi...
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Jim Rathbone
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Preparing for Exit – 8 Drivers That Optimise Business Value
If you would like to have the choice of selling in the future, consider these 8 drivers that optimise the value of your business. The 8 Drivers&...
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Jim Rathbone
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How To Review Your Strategy In 6 Steps
Why would the process of strategizing deny that social context? Moreover, today’s complexity means that distinctive strategies are unlikely to come...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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How Do I Re-Energise My Business Strategy?
So how do we define our ambition in a way that captures the big-picture as well as the detail, that inspires and engages key players and increases ...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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How To Develop a Business Strategy
"A commando business consultant if there ever could be such a thing." Facilitation and documentation of a team-generated strategy to secure the fu...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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How Strategic Planning Increased Profits by 70% Within 12 Months
Our client An SME in the sector was struggling to achieve budgeted sales and profits due to a lack of buy-in by management team members to pr...
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Jim Rathbone
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6 Key Questions To Ask When Your Business Faces a Crisis
COVID-19 - the most significant global health and business challenge of our generation. What matters NOW for business continuity, in the time of C...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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Opportunities in the time of COVID-19 (original version published on April 8th 2020 in the eBook “Surviving the Coronavirus Lockdown and Social Isolation”)
In times of great uncertainty, what do WE humans most strive to protect? What do we worship? It seems the answer is the “I”! From 1964, the word ...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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Shape Your Strategy
A key to developing a business that achieves sustainable and consistent profitability and growth is shaping a winning strategy. This will take adva...
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Jim Rathbone
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6 Key Questions to Ask When Your Business Faces a Crisis
What can we do to not let this serious crisis go to waste? What is your 90-day COVID-19 business continuity plan? How will you continue business a...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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How To Identify Opportunities In Times of Uncertainty or Crisis
Out of the mouth of babes … How would you answer the following four questions posed during a socially distanced VE day encounter? From L, aged 8: “...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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How Can I Handle Change Better?
How do we succeed, as individuals, team's and organisations, in the context of constant, increasingly complex and accelerating change?By having cle...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone