Five Strategic Tips for a Profitable Future by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions A recently published book, Understanding Michael Porter: The essential guide to competition and strategy (Magretta, 2012), compiles and applies the work of management guru, Michael Porter. Full of useful insights, here are five pearls of wisdom that can, if applied, create […]
VIEW POST5 Ways to Build Your Leadership Brand by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Many companies have an ad hoc approach to developing their leaders, developing them as and when necessary to help them fulfill their roles. The weakness here is that it is just about the company. Take a step back, and let’s review […]
VIEW POSTThe Only 2 Ways to Reach Your Customers by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions There are two ways to market to and gain customers, and two ways only. Either you reach out to them, or they are attracted to you. One way you try to “push” them to come to you, the other way […]
VIEW POSTHolding People Accountable By Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions A recent survey quoted in an article in the Harvard Business Review Blog highlighted that the single, most avoided responsibility was holding people accountable. In the survey of more than 5,400 upper-level managers from the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific gathered since 2010, 46% […]
VIEW POSTRaise Productivity – Build on Your Strengths, Not Your Weaknesses by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Too often in business we focus on our business’ and staff’s weaknesses. The reasoning is that by addressing our weaknesses we can improve. This is a fallacy. The only way that you can improve and raise performance on […]
VIEW POSTThe 12 Ways to Engage & Retain Staff – Part 5 by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions 12 Ways to Engage & Retain Staff, Image (c) People Insight In the first blog in this series we looked at why employee engagement is so important and provided an overview of Gallup’s findings from its extensive […]
VIEW POSTBusiness Lessons from Fishing by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions What do good anglers know which we can use in driving stronger business growth and results? Fishing is one of the most popular leisure time pursuits in the world. There is something about going out there, rod in hand, to capture that ever elusive […]
VIEW POSTThe 12 Ways to Engage & Retain Staff – Part 2 by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In our previous blog, we looked at why employee engagement is so important and provided an overview of Gallup’s findings from its extensive research. This was summarised in the following 12 ways to engage employees. In this […]
VIEW POSTThe 12 Ways to Engage & Retain Staff – Part 1 by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Employee engagement is becoming increasingly important as businesses compete for a dwindling skilled labour force as experienced baby-boomers retire and a smaller, relatively inexperienced workforce enters the market and progresses through the ranks. The need to attract, […]
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