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
When is enough learning, enough?
How often have you found yourself at a conference or training course only to find the only real usable value you’re taking home, is the value you created for yourself?
Good boundaries make for good businesses.
Over the years I’ve learned that good boundaries make for good businesses.
The new role didn’t feel anything like it was supposed to — and the commercial world suddenly is not what it first seems
Life changes when your first child arrives, life changes when your first staff member arrives too.
You start to scan the horizon for threats and may even begin to see the business world around you as a less than welcoming environment in which you have to find a safe path through for your team to thrive.
The not so subtle effect of unconscious bias on decision skills
While I was sitting at the bus stop the other day, an elderly lady wearing a black head scarf sat down beside me.
She was clutching a rope of rosary beads, wearing more than an occasional crucifix and was manhandling a large bag of dry cat food too big for her single-use plastic carry bag.
How does the world see you? And who does Google say you are?
I have something uncomfortable to confess.
My website feels very 'white', doesn’t it? And no, I’m not talking about the abundance of white space around the text.
I mean, you know … 'White'.
Are morals, ethics, and business bad bedfellows?
Your customers may have already thought about this —and expect you have too
A few years ago I attended a two-day conference for business owners discussing the importance of valuing ethics and purpose in business ahead of just pure commercial gain.
Things were going great until someone stood up and asked, ‘that question…’
But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself.
- Dissenters and trouble makers are not the same thing
- The business case for becoming a present person
- Grumpy Dry Cleaners and the curse of cat hair
- Embrace your inner commodity - you know you have to
- Looking for a business partner for fun times?
- 5 Ways to see if your idea or an opportunity is worth pursuing
- Why just follow your passion is bad career advice
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.
