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Retaining key staff – some tips

Your people are your greatest assets.  Of course, unlike many other assets, these ones have legs and sometimes, unfortunately, they use them to walk out on you!  Retaining key staff is one of the most frequent challenges that we come across in our work with ambitious owner managers.
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Posted April 18, 2012 by gerard. with 0 Comments

How to grow fast! Lessons from the 100 fastest growing

We were delighted to work with our partners at Real Business on their Hot 100 for 2012 – the 100 fastest growing independently owned businesses in the UK. Despite the continuing economic uncertainty, these businesses are growing at phenomenal rates and are achieving some remarkable things. So, there are some important lessons for others who are looking to grow fast
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Posted April 18, 2012 by gerard. with 0 Comments

12 ways to build a better business in 2012

By Gerard Burke, founder and MD, Your Business Your Future
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Posted December 13, 2011 by Victoria. with 0 Comments

In praise of Number 2s

We hear much about the need to encourage more people to take the entrepreneurial plunge and start a business.  Leaving aside the argument about whether encouraging more start-ups is the most effective way to stimulate growth, I wonder whether more entrepreneurs is really what the country needs.
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Posted December 9, 2011 by gerard. with 7 Comments

The Six Habits of Winners in a Downturn – Habits 3 and 4

In 2009, at the height (or should that be depth?) of the most challenging recession in most of our lifetimes, I observed that in any economic downturn, in every sector of the economy, there are winners as well as losers.  And, based on my work with thousands of ambitious owner managers, many of whom have survived more than one recession, I identified six habits of those who emerge as winners whatever the economic conditions.
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Posted December 9, 2011 by gerard. with 0 Comments