BusinessStrategy

During this quarter, I’m working with business owners and helping them plan for 2027. We'll talk about revenue What did we do this year? What can we...

This week, let's do a really uncomfortable exercise together. A full reality check. Forget your job title for a moment. Instead, write down what...

Imagine two businesses. Both are preparing their plans for next year. Both have agreed exactly the same revenue target: £1 million. Business A...

There's a walk AnneMarie and I do fairly regularly on a Saturday morning near home. It's around 90 minutes from end to end. Parts of it run above...

I've recently been doing some detailed three year planning and mapping out what that means for me personally, my family and for Nuvem9. It began...

When Simone Biles arrived at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she carried expectations few athletes had ever experienced. She was already one of the most...

Jeff Bezos popularised a simple way of distinguishing between different types of business decisions. He described them as one-way and two-way doors....

Last week, I asked a question that should come before setting any growth target: What are you actually trying to grow? Revenue Contribution...

On 17 May 2008, Portsmouth beat Cardiff City at Wembley to win the FA Cup, their first FA Cup victory in 69 years. They had also finished eighth in...

"Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu "The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness." John C. Maxwell Running a...

"Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu "The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness." John C. Maxwell Running a...

"Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu Revenue is the flower, the real story starts underground. One of my favourite things...

The aim is not to see more, but to see what matters The recent World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina was a timely reminder that numbers only...

When my wife, AnneMarie, and I first started talking about moving to Portugal, we never discussed tax rates, weather forecasts or property prices....

This month I have spoken about letting go. Letting go of decisions. Letting go of the need to be controlling everything. And letting other people...

Over the past two weeks I've shared two unexpected lessons that turning 50 taught me.   The first was that I could finally step away from the...

If you have been watching the World Cup over the last few weeks you may have observed one thing.   The best managers do not appear to make many...