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If you want to improve implementation, don't just look at the nuts and bolts, look at the wider picture and think how can you can actually grow your team, grow your ability to implement, and reach the business outcomes you're after.

It is currently cyber smart week so a good time to be thinking about cyber security and what's happening in your business and is your data safe. Here are two bits of information that may assist you at a board, director or management level to help manage your cyber risk.

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

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.

If there's one thing I really enjoy it's just sitting and watching the ocean and it's always changing, different things to look at I was chatting to some folks the other day and it made me realize that actually being in business sometimes is like being in the middle of the ocean let me explain how.

In a couple of earlier vlogs I was talking around shareholders agreements and family charters, and I mentioned a board charter. I've had a couple of people come back to me and say what is a board charter, what does it do, and why would we have one? So I just want to give you a bit of a rundown as to what a board charter does and where it may be appropriate for your business.

In the first two instalments around our current theme of Strategic Reviews, Annual Business Plans & Execution we looked at the importance of strategic reviews and staff workshops to gain insight. In this update we look into the key questions you need to ask on your way to discovering your competitive advantages.

Over the next three months (July-August-September 2021) we’re going to be looking at Strategic Reviews, Annual Business Plans & Execution. As part of this we’ve pulled insights from two PlanA Consulting clients that we’ll call Business 1 and Business 2.

I was asked the other day if I work with people outside Hawke's Bay and the answer is yes I do and yes I can. With technology as it is today, it doesn't matter where you're located within New Zealand. If you think we can add some value to your business then we can definitely help wherever you are.