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Full STEAM ahead

5 Feb 2016 | Business development, Business management, Business planning, Business services, Business strategy & planning, Business structures, People management

Howe STEM isn’t enough; entrepreneurs are powered by STEAM

Labels. How Many Have You Got?

8 Jan 2016 | Business development, Business management, Business services, Customers, Employees, Marketing, People management

I meet someone for the first time: “What do you do?” they ask. “I’m an accountant” I answer. They immediately start looking over my shoulder to find someone more interesting to talk to…They’ve used a label – all...

Take Aways from the Global Drucker Forum 2015

1 Dec 2015 | Business strategy & planning, Business structures, People management

The theme of the conference was Managing in the Digital Age – Reclaiming our Humanity – a clear suggestion that we are under threat from machines. There’s a truth here – machines will take over most jobs (including ours). That’s just one...

Entrepreneurs are Self-Centred

12 Nov 2015 | Business development, Business management, Business strategy & planning, Business structures, People management

A reflection on some aspects of the Global Drucker Forum 2015, with thoughts pertaining to the 2016 Forum theme: The Entrepreneurial Society…by which I mean they have self-belief, self-control, and self-actualisation.But they’re not the solution to rising...

What Shareholder Agreements Are Really For

9 Nov 2015 | Business development, Business management, Business planning, Business services, Business start-ups, Business strategy & planning, Business structures, People management

We’ve recently got involved in two shareholder agreements. In the first case this was an existing client who wanted to strengthen their management team, and give a potential exit route for one shareholder. The other is a start-up, and there was a need to...

Summary of Drucker Blog Posts – Managing in the Digital Age

30 Oct 2015 | Business development, Business management, Business planning, Business services, Business strategy & planning, Business structures, People management

IN AN AGE OF INCREASING DIGITALISATION AND AUTOMATION WHERE DO MANAGERS FIT INTO THE WORKFORCE, AND HOW WILL MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES HAVE TO ADAPT TO THE NEW WORKING LANDSCAPEReturning to the subject of the Global Drucker Forum in November 2015, which we started in this...