The Latest News from PlanA

You can have all the best plans, you can have all the best strategy, you can have all the best business objectives, you can have the best financial management, the best budgets, have done all the thinking, but there's one thing that makes a difference when it comes to business success in my mind

I'd like to tell you a story about a conversation I had with someone when I first went into business and some words of advice they gave me and they said to me, you might not follow this advice but if you don't there's a good chance you could go bankrupt

Wow it’s hard to believe that as I type this we’re in April and heading fast towards May. That’s the first quarter of the calendar year done and dusted and the start of a new financial year! Where did the past year go?

A while ago I read The Excellence Dividend by Tom Peters, it's a great book and I've talked about it in a previous vlog. For your PDF document CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Do you want your business to be like a formula one race car and a formula one team or do you want to be driving out some clapped out old dunga, New Zealand slang for an old car.

Benjamin Franklin once said if you fail to plan you plan to fail, so here are 7 simple tips to help you get a business plan done that sets some objectives for the coming year.

I was having a look back through Tom Peters The Excellence Dividend the other day and came across a story that I thought I'd share with you. It comes in relation to JP Morgan who was an American industrialist in the late 1800s early 1900s and the story goes how a person approached him with an envelope and asked him for twenty five thousand dollars, back in those days which is about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in today's funds.

Well kia ora folks. I was reading an article from Boardworks the other day and it was questioning or talking about why is it that some people don't feel comfortable expressing their opinion in meetings and going with groupthink. So here's today's video where I address this issue.

I was reading an article from McKinsey the other day and it posed the question that because we live in a world with so much information why is it that we seem to be really busy but sometimes feel we're not getting a lot of stuff done?

Without wanting to have a political spin in this email newsletter, it is great to see those businesses north of the Auckland border getting ready to open up with DHB vaccination rates moving past the 90% threshold.