How to Develop a Scale-Up Strategy
Let us introduce you to a 5-step process to help you scope the strategic direction of your business: Start with the “big picture” of what you want ...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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How Can Savouring The Moment Improve Wellbeing?
Whilst multitasking is a great skill, it can hinder our ability to be mentally present in one place and to think clearly, deeply and with focus abo...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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How Do I Improve Our Working Environment?
The most admired and highest performing companies have consistently invested to become great places to work and create environments where staff fee...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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3 Challenges Companies Face When Growing/Scaling-up
The OECD definition of scale-up (or high growth) is growing turnover by more than 20% a year over a period of three years, with at least 10 employe...
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Jim Rathbone
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How To Increase Profits by Pricing
Whether you are selling a service, a product or a combination of both - from the day you start your company and throughout its existence, you will ...
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José Lehmani
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Why Is Persistence Important In Leadership?
I recently came across the story of a remarkable man. He first went into business, but his venture flopped. He switched to politics, but also flop...
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Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone
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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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How To Increase Profit & Cashflow
How can we increase profits – especially when facing decreasing sales due to COVID lockdowns? How can we strengthen cash flow whilst being consider...
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Jim Rathbone
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How To Measure Your Service Business To Increase Growth, Quality and Efficiency
Every service business is full of detail. The most important should be measured across the 3 dimensions of service growth, service quality and serv...
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Jim Rathbone
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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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Grow The Business Part 2: How To Develop New Markets and Retain Existing Ones
Clients asked through this COVID period: Help us grow our business – to existing and new clients. Our answer: Take a fresh look at your markets, p...
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Jim Rathbone
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Grow The Business Part 1: How To Clarify Your Value Proposition
3 questions to sharpen your value proposition:Why are you in business? The pain-points you address and value you add to customers and markets – exi...
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Jim Rathbone