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Most business partnerships don’t fail because of a bad idea, quite the opposite. They fail because the behaviours that made the early days electric become stale then the fault lines creep [...]

The most expensive business decision isn’t the wrong hire, the wrong market, or the wrong product………..It’s waiting too long to address the wrong partnership dynamic. We’ve [...]

Background: A mid-sized European food manufacturing business, supplying multiple retail chains across the continent, embarked on an ambitious growth strategy. Leadership aimed to expand into new [...]

Now you’re the ceiling stopping it reaching £40M The realisation arrives quietly, usually around 2am on a Tuesday. You’re lying awake thinking about the factory breakdown that cost [...]

Four interventions that separate viable businesses from terminal decline The phone call always starts the same way. A CEO, hesitant. An equity partner, frustrated. A family business owner, [...]

 Now you have to decide whether to save it, sell it, or let it die The conversation happens in the office that still has his name on the door. Three siblings. Maybe a cousin who’s the operations. [...]

Background: A mid-sized European bakery business, supplying multiple retail chains across the continent, embarked on an ambitious growth strategy. Leadership aimed to expand into new product [...]

After years of working with established partnerships, friends and what I perceived to be industry leading people, that can add value to my own business ambitions, I’ve noticed a pattern: [...]

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a joy” These few words can teach us that our mindset either at home or at work, even life in general no matter how hard or challenging it [...]

We’re all guilty of it, Perfecting operations Chasing growth targets and lets add in a little firefighting daily challenges, Planning for leadership succession is a challenging discussion [...]