Category: Strategy

Will “double vision” make your vision any clearer?

You need to align your personal vision and your business or work vision. Make sure that they are in harmony and that you can achieve both.

Ideas for Success from Mindshop – November 2010

Ideas for Success from Mindshop:
1. Sales – The Order Taker is Dead: Long live the art of the Sales Professional who sells!
2. People – Tackling a Global Employee Crisis?
3. Success Tips – 3 Key Ideas for Business Success in 2011

A case study on building business through cooperation – even among fierce rivals!

I encourage everyone in the hi-tech sector to attend the monthly networking meeting of Auckland ICT on 25 November 2010. This will be a great opportunity to enhance your ability to collaborate and meet like-minded people.

Wow that’s a great solution, but what is the problem?

Simon Fawkes April 2008

How you define the problem can have a major impact on the solution. Too often an elegant solution is developed without sufficient analysis of the problem and the underlying causes.

Put far more effort into probing until you are confident you have identified the underlying problem. The check and double-check before you start to consider possible solutions.

LAN Airlines: “Third World” not OneWorld

I had a horrendous experience with LAN Airlines when I flew from Rio de Janeiro to Auckland via Santiago in early July. I kept a note of the main events as they occurred and typed a full account on my iPhone at the start of the delayed flight from Santiago to Auckland.  I then fell …

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