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Planning for the Future: Technology and your business

Artificial Intelligence: tool or threat? Change is a comin’. That shouldn’t be controversial. However, everything from here on might well be. I’ve been following the debate on how robo-advice will or won’t disrupt financial advice. This is not another piece continuing that debate, although it is an insight into the …

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Building the Best Team: Mastering recruitment

Hiring right matters The more I reflect on what allows my clients to really fly, the more I come back to just one thing: people. If you want to build a great business then you have to have the right team in place. Your version of success might be to …

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Money Can’t Buy Happiness: Bringing back the fun

Be careful what you wish for It’s an old cliché, but you don’t want to focus on the money in life if you want to be happy. Does that mean life is a choice between making money and being happy? Absolutely not. But you do need to be careful what …

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Finding Your Focus: Saying No to Distractions

Beware of shiny things One of the dangers of being a visionary or entrepreneur is that you can get distracted by ‘shiny things’. What’s a shiny thing? Anything that’s not your core business. Especially if your core business isn’t finished yet. “As soon as you become an entrepreneur – and …

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Learning to Let Go: The Art of Delegation

Why can’t I delegate? Everyone talks about delegating more, but it’s a difficult skill to master. I don’t mean intellectually; everyone gets the reasoning behind delegation. However, in practice very few business owners find that it comes easily to them. If that’s you, don’t despair. Why don’t we let go …

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