Business Management blog

Actions speak louder than words: Getting things done. By Robin Tidd
24-01-2008
Individual managers vary in their ability to complete actions which they have ‘picked up’ at meetings. Although this can sometimes be an individual thing, often is it more of an organisational failing. After all, top management set the standards and gove...

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Crunch time - When meetings matter
18-01-2008
In this entry I focus on a specific set of circumstances which most businesses go through as they are growing, changing and trying to improve.

Picture the situation:-

• The managers and the front line people are working hard to keep up with gro...
  
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Dazed and confused: making sense of the sales puzzle. By Robin Tidd
12-12-2007
In the past two weeks I have visited two completely different and unrelated small businesses (between £2m and £5m sales pa) which are relatively successful but have expressed the same problem. Thinking back, this problem does crop up quite regularly. The...

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Quantifying and evaluating performance opportunities - Helping managers put a pound to improvements
7-11-2007
I was speaking recently to an MD of a growing small/medium sized business (annual sales £15m). He was very complimentary about his managers' attitude and technical knowledge, but he was also frustrated that they were not easily able to bring him worked b...

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