Tag: business owners

You may know your IQ but what is your TQ (Trust Quotient)? David Maister, the professional services firm business guru, has on his website a diagnostic tool to help you assess just how trustworthy you are. Trust is crucial to holding together the networked relationships that define the new economy. The ability to trust and be [...] Read more »

A friend of mine once had a copy of a book called something like “101 things to do before you die”. I am pretty sure that walking on a bed of hot coals was one of the 101 challenges listed. For those of you who are not familiar with the Firewalk experience, this is a ritual [...] Read more »

Following my last post about some of the issues involved in selling businesses, I have found an online planning tool that I am sure will help many people get started on the planning process and start to make them aware of the relevant issues. It is on the excellent Business Link site. Please let me know what [...] Read more »

Despite all the talk of recession, there seem to be a lot of talk at the moment about selling businesses. (Interestingly though, no one is talking about buying business, so who are sellers going sell to?) The reason for this mainly seems to be the increase in the tax rate by 80% from 6.4.08 (for [...] Read more »

At K&H, when we embarked on our systemisation programme in 2004, one of the first systems to go live was how to use our coffee machine. It is clearly not just us that think this is a priority, as coffee is used the example of how to start systemising (or “systematising” to the Americans) in the [...] Read more »