by Step-Up Finance (Business) | May 31, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Business is ‘terrible’, we learnt today, from someone we’d worked with. ‘It’s hardly better than last year’. ‘Great!’ Was our response, as we waited for this individual’s usual stoic resolve and general philosophy to give us their punch line. ‘And how was last year?’ ‘Best year we’ve ever had!’ We already knew that. We’d also [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
"That accounts for a good deal..... It explains everything. No wonder!" So said Eeyore, in his seemingly perpetual, gloomy way, in a tale about a tail in which the owner hadn’t realised it was missing. Confining his knowledge to himself he inevitably is a bit depressed but gives consideration, on this occasion, to the [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Dec 15, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Imagine a practical difficulty. Now consider the problem that is creating the challenge, but don’t be afraid to let imagination overcome all constraints. That is `Outside the Box' thinking as we see it for business, going beyond the confines of familiar ways of thinking. It is not, as defined recently by a contender on The [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 22, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Obsessive fan or polarised hater, filling in the blank to ‘There’s only one ____ at World Cup 2010’, will invoke a response. Be it the obvious, team, player, manager, flag, trumpet or along the lines of, place, attitude, way to find out, way to go or problem; whatever the choice tribalism stirs people up. The [...]
