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Leadership & Management

Leadership & Management

Look after You - Leading in a Time of Crisis

Graham Birkenhead, March 31 2020

My last blog was about leading your newly home-bound team.  In this blog, I am going to talk about one very important member of your team – you. As the leader, it is essential that you pay attention to yourself, and to ensure that you are in a good place to lead.   As the flight attendant says: ‘put your own oxygen mask on first before helping othe...

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Leadership & Management

Getting Back to the Future

The Kingsford Team, March 24 2020

We are temporarily suspending the Best in World series to focus on operational effectiveness and efficiency. Last week, after we got Very serious about COVID19: • Schools, shops, events closed or shut down.• Social distancing has become the new normal• Panic buying seems to be abating• Governments announced a huge financial support package for busi...

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Leadership & Management

Leading the Home Team

Graham Birkenhead, March 20 2020

COVID-19 has changed the world we once knew. But we are adapting – this is what we humans are good at and what made us the dominant species. Don’t worry, we will quickly learn how to live with this strange new world, and how to make it our new normal in order to get on with life and with business.

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Market Strategy

Best in the World

Andrew Penny, March 3 2020

Subscribe to our Next Level Thinking for CEOS and Business Owners podcast.Listen to today's Best in the World podcast. Best in the World is a concept we've been working on for about 5 years. We wondered why some companies were extremely successful, expanded steadily and survived competitive approaches while others fizzled out. Many of the fizzlers...

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Market Strategy

X as a Service

Andrew Penny, February 25 2020

One of our clients manufactures heavy-duty material handling equipment and sells it to the extraction industry around the world. The system is controlled by a central brain that ensures that all the moving parts function in harmony. Their solution is quite novel and well protected by patents but having a patent and being able to enforce it, especi...

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Money for Nothing - But Not for Free

Andrew Penny, February 18 2020

Subscribe to our Next Level Thinking for CEOS and Business Owners podcast. Click to listen to today's 'Money for Nothing – But Not for Free' Podcast. For more than 40 years I’ve paid a retainer fee to my life insurance company – and I’ve yet to make a claim! I retain an unused membership with the CAA who will rush to my rescue if my 1967 MGB expire...

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Market Strategy

Attracting Super Value Clients

Andrew Penny, February 11 2020

Subscribe to our Next Level Thinking for CEOS and Business Owners podcast. Click to listen to today's 'Attracting Super Value Clients' podcast. Before we switched to an Apple Mac platform, every year or so my PC would just quit. I’d downloaded something that didn’t play well with all the other Apps or sometimes what the service bureau referred to...

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Market Strategy

Nobody Wants Your Stuff.

Andrew Penny, January 7 2020

Listen to this week's podcast here. As a kid, I would stare up into the night sky with amazement. It’s pretty obvious that we are a just a tiny part of a very large (one might even say universal) system. The same is true of our businesses – we are simply a small part of a large system. I can guarantee you that nobody really wants what you sell. Th...

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Two Big Take-Aways From 2019

Andrew Penny, December 31 2019

Over the last year we have been very fortunate and thank all of those who have trusted us to help them grow their businesses. We are working with a world leader in dam safety. They design systems that prevent millions of tons of ice and debris from shutting down power generation.

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Leadership & Management

Background Music - What's Yours?

Andrew Penny, December 24 2019

At this time of year background music is everywhere – (the one I dread hearing is ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ – Jesus had a drummer??) Can you hear what I hear…. We all know that stores are not playing it for our entertainment – they want to put us in a better mood perhaps? Well not exactly.

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