What separates one competitor from another?

What separates one competitor from another? Ultimately, it’s their smarts! They make good decisions faster!

An audience member once asked me at an international conference what was the critical success factor between growing outfits.
I suggested that when you strip away the strategic and operational issues, what’s seems to make the difference is the experience and [...]

There’s a malaise emerging in the business world

For some time now I’ve been watching an emerging phenomena in the business world. Simply put, people are not making decisions as fast as they used to… even compared to five years ago.
So what’s driving this suspected malaise?
Is it the case that popular matrix reporting structures are so diversifying responsibility… that accountability for making decisions [...]

Useful resources…here’s three that add good value

Resource files used to be stored in the bottom drawer of one’s office filing cabinet ….but now they’re mostly all on-line.
Here’s three I recommend you have a look at:

a particularly useful resource…covering all sorts of current business issues is Smart Company…an on-line magazine for entrepreneurs and SME’s…published by Amanda Gome…click [...]