If your business runs entirely on documented process, like the MBA people would like, you're not ready for when the Nazis turn up. Here's a better, simpler, quicker way to make decisions in your business.
It's an essential skill a lot of would-be entrepreneurs don't know about. Don't get run over by the no-cash bus.
Last week I crossed a grim line in the sand, and there is no going back.
When I hear someone say "I've worked hard all my life" I reach for my TASER
We all have these legacy relics. You can't see them any more, but customers can.
Whoah it's the blog's 5th birthday! But do any of these ideas work? And have I learned anything in that time?
If your business runs entirely on documented process, like the MBA people would like, you're not ready for when the Nazis turn up. Here's a better, simpler, quicker way to make decisions in your business.
It's an essential skill a lot of would-be entrepreneurs don't know about. Don't get run over by the no-cash bus.
Last week I crossed a grim line in the sand, and there is no going back.
When I hear someone say "I've worked hard all my life" I reach for my TASER
We all have these legacy relics. You can't see them any more, but customers can.
Whoah it's the blog's 5th birthday! But do any of these ideas work? And have I learned anything in that time?
Their products are powerful compliment magnets, but you must be prepared for some tough love
So you don't think you're a sales person. That's fine, neither do most of us but you can still bring the money through the door.
If you have constant staff churn, you'll pay through the nose in recruitment, training and new-staff mistakes.
Two Code Red alerts that make us run away from angel investments as soon as we see them
You think you're unique and cool, but through the eyes of customers, you're probably indistinguishable from your competitors. The sameness is about to go to galactic levels with new AI tools like ChatGPT.
It’s been fifteen years. How do we finally realise the value of this beast we’ve created? And what are we going to do with all the money?
Nothing against Navy SEALS, but my job doesn’t involve much amphibious warfare. Neither does yours. Give it a rest, white collar office guys.
It’s a business model that seems to have cherry-picked all the worst, hardest, most expensive elements of running a business.
Undisruptable will see its first international release later this year and it's not in a country you'd expect.
The reviews are in and they are very good.
Ian Whitworth is a reformed advertising creative director turned entrepreneur with a successful national group of businesses that he doesn’t work in day to day. Read more