I’ve just finished running our Winning Margin Manufacturing Awareness course with a group of people involved largely in sustainability and net zero. During the course we introduce the option to invest for sustainability and to enable the business to move toward a net zero goal. At the end of the…
How many times have you heard the phrase “time is money”? The problem is that anyone saying that does not understand the concept of time. Time is not money – it’s far more important. Time is the only thing that cannot ever, under any circumstances be replaced. Once it’s gone,…
Take any area you care to name and it’s a crowded one – or is it? There are over 750 types of UK cheese but most people would struggle to name more than about 10, there are in excess of 110 million active YouTube channels and yet people still start…
Everywhere you look there are articles, courses and seminars on the subject sustainability. Almost every business now has to have the word sustainability added to it. Sustainable manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, sustainable power and the list goes on. There are more sustainability consultants than you can shake a stick at but…
Nearly every business I visit worries about the competition. They are constantly working with one glance over their shoulder at the competition to see if they are cheaper, quicker, better. This is not an effective way of running any organisation. Effective organisations only have one competitor and that’s themselves. The…
All businesses need to make profits to survive. Most businesses look to increase profits over time. Poorly managed businesses think that constantly planning to increase turnover will increase profits. We need to look at how to effectively increase profits. Put simplistically, PROFIT = SALES – COSTS. In a purely mathematical…
In organisations there can be case for managers and even executives but that case is rare and usually poor. What are required by most organisations are leaders and “doers”. It would great if everyone was a leader, but whilst anyone can be a leader, not everyone wants to be a…
In Part 1 How To Get Back On Track Effectively Part 1 we recognised a problem. Now in how to get back on track effectively Part 2 we look at the plan for the solution. Any work can be divided into categories as follows: Immediate Income Earning Work – vitally important…
The more observant of you will have realised that for the last few weeks there have been no blogs. The reason for this is simple. I have not been taking my own advice. Two large projects have come along which I have allowed to hijack my overall objective and despite…
In Part 1 How To Be Effective Part 1 we looked at the importance of setting the objective. Now, in How To Be Effective Part 2 we need to consider one of the biggest problems of all, how to create and use time in order to be effective. This also leads…