Posts made in January, 2012
Giving Business The Window Treatment
“The secret to creativity is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.” – Richard Harding Davis (author) Immunity to change on the high street is relative to managing and taking advantages which, for the high street retailer means practicing the core art; window dressing, in both virtual and actual shop fronts. A shop’s front is the first ‘actual’ point of...
Read MoreLeading Business: At The Bottom Of The World
3 Degrees C. Almost tropical compared to conditions faced by Shackleton. A UK chilly winter morning reminder of the decision, almost 103 years to the day, ‘it was better to be a living donkey than a dead lion’; winter clothing layers were required. Shackleton’s circumstances were different, having ventured furthest towards the South Pole than anyone before, he could have been the...
Read MoreThe Interview
If a small business was being interviewed for a job it might go something like this: Interviewer: What are your strengths and weaknesses? Small Business: I’m flexible, I’m able to react and respond to shocks, adjust my processes, products and pricing accordingly which makes me a survivor. Mis-management is a weakness, however, that can be controlled using my...
Read MoreJanuary 2012 Intermediary A-Musing
Business X-Ray Why fix something that isn’t broken? It’s always been done this way. What we do works. So, indeed, why fix something that isn’t broken? Who can blame a business with responsibilities vying for attention, choosing to put self-examination on the to-do list in favour of dealing with the more pragmatic matters such as keeping the wolves from the door? Checking for profit gaps,...
Read MoreJanuary 2012 Noteworthy News
It is becoming prohibitively expensive for the lenders, who rely on cheap short-term financing to fund a part of their balance sheet, to fund for more than 3-5 years, hence, traditional banking, which supports the wider corporate client, is facing further shrinkage in the corporate banking world. Businesses and motorists are bracing themselves after the wholesale price of petrol is set to rise....
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