blog
Being a business owner can be hard work. Let’s make it easier.
What’s Important Right Now And What You Can Do About It
(Content of Full Focus newsletter - Mon, 6 Apr 2020) Like us, you’ve no doubt had plenty of emails and communications over the last week. It can be pretty overwhelming, not to mention repetitive of something that’s not very good news. Not good at all. Many of our...
Family Business Friction: How To Fix It
Starting a family business is usually straightforward. But it can become complex to manage and complicated to exit. Conflicts over debt and other relationship issues are often the central cause. Failures can occur in any family-owned business. When they do, it’s often...
Are You Keeping An Eye On Your Team Morale?
A vital ingredient of any successful business is its people. So it stands to reason that good team morale is high on the list of "must haves". It becomes especially important if your business is going through difficult times. And this doesn't always mean “hard...
No More Winging It
Are you floundering when it comes to managing the books? Struggling to get your head around all the rules and regulations? Relationship with your accountant or bookkeeper not that flash? Then buckle up for your financial literacy check-up. New Zealand is one of the...
How To Create A Winning Strategy For Your Business
Research shows that 90% of the strategies we develop fail due to poor implementation. A part of that 90% fail rate is due to no implementation at all. This assumes you even have a genuine business strategy. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking you've got a...
How To Get Your Business & Personal Affairs Sorted
Do you ever wonder if you've got the right things in place to safeguard your family and your business? Or whether what you’ve already got in place will actually do the job you want? It can be easy to put this in the 'too hard' basket ... you might not know what to do,...
Renegotiating With Your Bank Can Lead To Huge Benefits: Here’s How
When you put new finance in place, it's usually a big relief. But often these financial arrangements are never revisited. You keep making the repayments and think no more of it. Yet it's important to check that these arrangements match what's...
5 Principles of Personal Discipline
Warren Rustand is a man who has spent a lifetime learning and engaging with exceptional people. This article in NZ Business magazine's November issue talks about his view on the 5 principles of greatness and leadership. It's a short insightful article that could...
Why EX Should Be At The Heart Of Business Strategy
Recent research has found New Zealander's rank work-life balance at number two in what they want from an employer. Yet the perception is work-life balance is not a high priority for many New Zealand businesses. Here's a short article from a recent NZBusiness magazine...
Will Your Business Survive To The Next Generation?
Over the many years we've been working alongside family businesses one thing has become clear: Only 1/3 of them will survive the transition to the second generation. And of that 1/3, only 1/3 of those will survive to the third generation. That’s not very good odds....