A business is not a mission.
So why do so many businesses have “mission statements”? Because they think that to print pious sentiments proves that they are Socially Responsible Corporations and this will convince people that they only practice decent business behaviour.
Mission statements are as effective as a fig leaf in a gale.
It is right that [...]

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I have a Mentee who, like many before him, has come to me because he is uncertain how to progress his career. He knows that my way of dealing with this, and other subjects, is to ask questions and help him come to his own conclusions. Of course, I will tell him if I think [...]

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Think that the financial crises encompassing the globe have little to do with you and me? Wrong – we are the people who are paying for them all.
How do we pay? In significantly increased prices of goods. Soaring prices are pervading every aspect of our lives. They give rise to that scourge of prudent people [...]

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A man doesn’t dig his garden just because he has a new shovel. Cultivation is for survival or entertainment, not simply to make use of the new toy on the block. And yet how many of us have fallen for the IT hardware and then searched, often unsuccessfully, for its purpose?
Don’t get me wrong about [...]

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A long-term friend and former colleague of mine who now runs his own successful business told me recently: “In the last two years I have come to realise that being a CEO means being a Mentor, too. We have to connect with our employees on both the work and the home front. It is no [...]

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