If I asked most owner-advisers to tell me what’s in their business plan, they’d quote me a turnover target.  And this is where the misunderstanding started.  A member of my Uncover Your Business Potential Online community wrote to me recently and said, “I get the impression the course is geared …

Advice offerings are fragmenting.  When I arrived in the UK in 2004 there was the traditional industry that dominated. It was a sales culture. There was only a very small pocket of financial planners attempting to gain traction with their more client-focused and holistic approach to advice.  All the old …

September marks the end of the summer break and the start of ‘business season’. It’s a great time to review the business goals you’ve set for the year to see if you’re on course to achieve them. Here are some great must-read articles to help you on your way. It’s not too late …

In May of 2020, Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky sent a letter to all staff announcing the firm’s decision to layoff 1900 employees (25% of their workforce). Like many in the travel and leisure sector, they’d been hard hit, with revenues down 80%.  The way the three founders of …