Painting By Numbers – How Financially Literate Are You?

Amazingly almost 25% of small businesses owners were unable to identify the costs they needed to control in order to succeed, a 2009 survey showed.  Given that more than half of business start-ups fail within five years this comes as no great surprise. So how financially literate are you? Where do you sit on a […]

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ROUND THE BEND, MIND MAPPING AND NON-LINEAR THINKING

I had the pleasure of talking to a local networking group about non-linear thinking.  I was talking about mind mapping and how it can be used to pull together diverse ideas or actions around a central concept.  What really surprised me was the feedback I got from a number of really experienced business people about […]

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Get Fit For Business

Get Fit For Business One of the most frustrating experiences as a business coach is to be called in to help failing businesses.  I often wish I had been called in a year earlier. A staggering 66% of micro businesses in Canada fail within 5 years.  Here are some of the symptoms of upcoming failure: […]

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WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM SCHOOL

I was at my son’s school last night for a parent education evening.  It’s amazing what you learn at school!  Alexander goes to Montessori school which has a different approach to early childhood education.  Hence needing to have parent education nights. Maria Montessori, the founder of the Montessori school system, believed that education wasn’t just […]

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