About Graeme Nichol
 Graeme Nichol Country: United States Member Since: 24 Oct 2006 Total Live Articles: 26 ( Total Views 332 ) 
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1. Will Your Business Make a Profit?
A simple discussion of how to determine a businesses break-even point... |
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2. Setting Your Personal Goals
Goal setting is over written about and under used, it has beens hyped by folk who have never set their own plans or made any achievements of their own! What is your excuse.... |
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3. Management Team - Masters or Myth?
A business has a lifespan that is severely reduced if it doesn't learn how to succeed. Much like a child if it did not learn as it developed what would it end up like after a few years. How's your business developing? Is it developing as a Learning Organization?... |
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4. Why Create an Annual Business Plan?
Plan for success; it is about setting a direction and working towards it. Getting your thoughts down on paper helps you to articulate your success.... |
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5. Discussions are Killing your Business?
It is all about how you communicate with your team that determines their involvement - or lack of it! We need more dialog and less discussion.... |
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6. The Elephant in the Room
This article highlights the functional silos management lives in and the problems it can cause. Every manager comes to the table with many years of experience and study behind them. They come with a thorough understanding of their role in the company but a limited understanding of the other Cs roles.... |
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7. Reporting is Serious Business
Developing a reporting structure is often a problem for organizations large and small! It's really simple.... |
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8. Are You Wasting Valuable Time?
This is not about time management this is about focus. Do what gets results not what fits in the top right hand box in your Covey chart.... |
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9. Success and Failure: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Does you business learn from it's mistakes. Like learning to walk or ride a bike we fall a few times but we learn. Does you business encourage this approach or penalize it?... |
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10. Focus on the Future
Business moves in mysterious way, subtle changes may become evident radical changes may not be noticed before they affect our business. A new technology could ruin an established business. Can you pick up these radical shifts? Do you even look for them? Do they bite you before you notice them?... |
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11. Business Excellence: Its in the Eye of the Beholder
Business excellence programs are part of a solution in moving an organization towards excellence - not the whole and only solution... |
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12. Time Off Or Good Training?
Leadership training is all the rage. Is it worth spending money on? I doubt it.... |
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13. Silver Bullets: Have You Found Yours?
Managers and business owners are always looking for an edge on the competition. It seems that new fads and management theories arrive weekly. Which ones wil propell your business to success?... |
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14. Are Seven Percenters Killing Your Business?
Productivity or lack of it by senior managers can be telling.... |
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15. Do You Have A Strategic Plan?
Your business probably has one - right? Do you?... |
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16. Amplifying Positive Deviance
Positive deviants make radical change happen from the outside...Their approaches may be different but their resutls are positive and real... |
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17. Is Leadership Worth the Investment?
Business are spending more and more time and resources on Leadership training without a real ROI. Set your organization up to achieve predefined strategic goals. Watch how leaders emerge as the people who can make things happen.... |
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18. Creating a Vision That Achieves Results
Build a vision that will have the support of your team as well as your customers and build a successful business... |
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19. Are Managers really there to Solve Problems ?
Managers who think they are there to solve problems are living in the wrong century... |
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20. 5 Ways of Increasing Business Profits
5 simple ways at looking to increase your bottom line... |
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21. What is a Shared Vision?
Having a vison others buy into leads to success... |
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22. Work With Spirit, Work With Pride
Bring back spirit in the workplace and you'll bring back profits... |
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23. 7 Critical Steps to Formulating Your Annual Strategic Business Plan
Having a plan to execute leads to success. Failing to plan is planning to fail... |
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24. The Art of Delegation
Delegation makes you a success. How are you doing at it?... |
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25. Execution or Exit
Execution leads to results. Planning is a step in the right direction but execution is what counts... |
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26. Credibility: Hard to Achieve - Easy to Lose!
We live and die by our reputations, hold onto what you have... |
