Modern Small Business
Welcome to our Leadership Blog
Life, Love & Business – it's a phrase we often use to explain the everyday interconnection between our business lives and our personal lives — all for the purpose of protecting and providing for those we love and nurturing our key relationships.
Our experience is most people want to be better people, to run better businesses and be better able to contribute to their communities and families in more meaningful ways. At its core of course, is the drive of leadership; who you are when nobody is looking, what you believe (and what you don't) who you value, what you support, and how you choose to show up in the world around you. Leadership is how we live (and work) with purpose and become that change we want to see in the world around us.
Our Modern Small Business Blog is for people who want to actively grow themselves, their businesses, and their community – so they can all live a bigger life.
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision”
― Peter F. Drucker
Ask yourself and then your Accountant this one question every year
Understanding the must-haves and the nice-to-haves
As a child, I remember hearing people say ‘you have to spend money to make money’.
It was one of those comments you would always feel the need to nod in agreement with, even though what it actually meant was a complete mystery to me.
I've gotten a little older now but the reason behind that statement still escapes many small business owners today.
A detailed insight into a business interruption event
Most business owners are focused on the day-to-day delivery of their products and services and doing the best for their customers.
Sometimes we forget to talk about the reality of business interruption and how we can prepare for those times.
How much money does your business owe you? (and will it ever pay you back?)
Why seeing yourself as a shareholder is often better than an owner
People go into business predominantly for the benefit of their families and for greater personal freedom.
The core motivation for many is more around serving others and less about personal entitlement
So is it any wonder, many small business owners often slip and prioritise others to their own personal and commercial detriment - and forget to pay themselves first?
The importance of carrying your own baggage
Building anything of value requires change.
But when we’re talking about personality the question is, to what degree can we change our own personalities?
What a 9-year-old boy taught me about courage
Its never comfortable
Courage has always been an interesting character trait to me and over time I’ve decided that it’s not a trait, it’s a learnable skill.
There's a good reason why an invisible habit is hard to break
Life’s busy – no surprises there – so over time, we all develop habits and routines to help get stuff done, fast.
These decision-shortening processes continue to develop throughout our lifetime. It’s not long until we all develop our own unconscious implicit bias about people we like, situations we don’t, and how to see the world.
The result is regardless of how impartial we think we are, we all have implicit bias hiding in our subconscious.
The problem is what you don’t know can hurt you (and your business).
- 10 Strategies to improve your mental toughness
- The irritation of doing good in business
- Want the biggest benefit for your buck? Now you're thinking like a philanthropist
- If it's not on your map, you probably won't go there
- Measuring the value of a business course – when is enough learning, enough?
- Pushy sales people, boundaries and the Crowned Prince of Nigeria
- First time Dad, first time Boss and the world looks different now
Get Prepared for Business
Protect your Small Business (and the Family who supports it) from the statical realities of Life, Love and Business we all face.
