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Cautious or opportunistic? We should be getting used to this. Thriving on Chaos , as Tom Peters called it in 1988 ! Since then we’ve had multiple crises causing economic and business chaos – from the dotcom bust of 2001 to the financial meltdown of 2008 and the pandemic of 2020 to the current Trump-induced turmoil of a new world order in geopolitics, trade and military alliances and global economies. How do we cope now? Tom Peters’ book, Thriving on Chaos - Handbook for a Man

And How to Avoid Them This year I’m planning more frequent posts from your Uncle Ralph , including revision and updates of some of the most popular articles from the past decades. Last week’s post was on Exit Strategies, this week is on The Seven Biggest Mistakes and How to Avoid Them . About twenty years ago, I came up with the theme for a breakfast seminar presentation of The Seven Biggest Mistakes that Entrepreneurs Make . The presentation was well received and has since b

Procrastinating and indecision add to the stress of decision-making and are JUST DO IT. contrary to two of my favourite guiding mantras for managing in business and in life: ·       DON’T WASTE TIME   ·       JUST DO IT   It’s easy to procrastinate by continuing to do research and analysis, testing alternatives, and assessing the risks and potential consequences under different scenarios. However, you can avoid further time-wasting and stressful indecision by answering these

Is your business built to last? The primary responsibility of any leadership team is to build and sustain the brand reputation for the organisation or the institution that they lead. If the leadership team is dominated by a single personality, as CEO or President, then the brand reputation is strongly tied to that personality and it becomes harder to build, sustain, and protect it, if that personality damages the brand or leads the organisation in a direction contrary to the

This year I’m planning more frequent posts from your Uncle Ralph , including revision and updates of some of the most popular articles from the past decades. Last week’s post was on Start-up, this week is on Exit Strategies. Many entrepreneurs are at the later stages of their careers and working on their exit strategies.  It’s not a good time to discover that the exit is just as difficult as the start-up. It’s better to have a plan in place before it’s necessary to exit on sh

This year I’m planning more frequent posts from your Uncle Ralph , including revision and updates of some of the most popular articles among the hundreds of the past twenty years.   It seemed appropriate to begin with a reminder of the important issues to consider before starting a new business venture.   Look before you leap I’ve often said, "Starting your own business is a lot like sky-diving – it seems like an exciting idea, but you’re not likely to do it until you’re push