Making tough decisions is a normal part of running a business. The stakes are high, and the decisions we make can be the cause of some considerable changes. Some changes happen gradually, like the rising of the sun – almost imperceptibly – from complete darkness to broad daylight. Other changes are sudden, and cause a …
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Cashflow is the pulse of every small business as it rises and falls from day to day, week to week and month to month. It is a critically vital life-blood that keeps the doors open and allows for the ongoing development of the business, for growth and stability. The permaculture principle “Use edges and value …
This is a story about how to greatly improve time management in your life, and business, through structure, flexibility, and permaculture. Could you use a little help in getting your head around all the never-ending tasks and deadlines? Are you perhaps feeling a little overwhelmed by it all? Picture a heavy box, sitting in the …
The Customer Experience is a fundamental topic that every single business must pay premium attention to, because if you don’t have customers, you don’t have a business. When we talk about customer experience, you could picture a retail setting, with a friendly and helpful sales assistant making you feel like a VIP as they offer …
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When we talk about the earth, the environment and sustainability, how much do we recognise our own impact? Do we really understand the prolonged impact of our actions? Some actions have a very clear cause and effect, while others have an impact that is harder to see in the immediate time, and yet could cause …
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Are you considering starting your own business to achieve self sufficiency? It takes a special kind of crazy to start up your own business to achieve self sufficiency. In a world where stability and security are so desperately clung to, and for very good reasons, why would someone think to jeopardise that with wild notions …
Startups – Self sufficiency risk or 1 great big opportunity? Read More »
If you’re reading this article because the title made you look twice, and wonder… what??? You wouldn’t be the first. I was the first person to do that. As I have grappled with the concept of coaching how to Permaculture Your Business, taking 3 very separate things to blend them into one, I gave myself …
How vegetable gardening can help you understand business systems – and yourself Read More »
Have a good look at this image. Several stacks of coins, each growing consecutively larger, each one topped by a seedling of an undetermined plant, which also grows with each consecutive stack, until you get to a large jar of coins with a larger plant. This image has been used many times, probably because it’s …
Once upon a time, a typical business would be established on a few core principles, and would run some marketing, deliver as promised, and responsibly manage the finances, with a high likelihood of being successful. This was back in a time when the world was far less complicated. Since then, however, the world has steadily …
There are too many variables when starting a business to be able to provide a comprehensive checklist that would cover all the actions required for all types of businesses, but here is a list of the general basics. Each of these steps has volumes of further information available, and it’s important to research and have …