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Tree revolution continues at pace!
The tree revolution continues… In February, 27 people and companies purchased home & business printer technology solutions. Which means another 27 trees have been planted, in-conjunction with our mental health charity partner Shiva Trust. For those unaware, for every technology agreement, we plant a tree for that customer and provide them with a certificate showing
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Lancashire elderly enter digital revolution
Supporting our local communities is important for us at any time… Although, it’s taken on a whole new meaning for us during the last 12 months. We’re only a small business and have been struggling ourselves during the pandemic, even so, our team has managed to help our local community in three ways. During the
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Why we’re all entrepreneurs inside?
All humans are entrepreneurs … When we lived in caves, we we’re all self-employed, having to find our own food, to feed ourselves and our families, just to survive. That’s where human history begins. As civilisations and then big corporations came, individual entrepreneurship got suppressed. We became followers of civilisation leaders and labour for big
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Matteo Ricci ‘Cultural Accommodation’ strategy
Religious evangelism may at first glance appear to be a dubious subject for a business article… However, I would like to draw your attention to a strategy used in the 15th-16th century by Jesuit Missionaries called ‘Cultural Accommodation.’ This was most notably used by an Italian missionary named Matteo Ricci, who was tasked with the
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Why small giants aren’t unicorns?
Good day, time for a business book review… When most authors write a book about the traits of successful businesses, their research is focused on large public companies or those seeking to become large fast. Interestingly there is a large group of smaller non-public companies growing quietly and gradually, and who are doing so in
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The Bill Gates & Warren Buffett effect
Bill Gates schedules a week each year to read lots of new books and think… One of the most important decisions we all make every day is how to spend our time. Highly successful leaders often allocate their time in unconventional ways. Take former Microsoft CEO and world’s 3rd richest person Bill Gates. Each year
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Heard of the Mona Lisa effect?
Have you heard of the Mona Lisa effect? The way the Mona Lisa is framed, hung, and lit is special. The theory is, the effect would not be the same it was framed, hung, and lit in a different museum, in a different city, in a different country. The French call it terroir. It has
Jack Welch Winning
Why winning in business is important?
Good day, time for a business book review… I’ve always admired what Jack Welch achieved at GE, so I jumped at the chance to read his best-selling book ‘Winning’. It’s not dedicated to his time at GE, rather it’s dedicated to winning in business. Yes, he talks about things that happened within GE, but he
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Plant a tree campaign breaks 2,000 barrier!
The most wonderful thing has happened… Our Plant a Tree campaign has passed 2,000, in partnership with our mental health charity partner Shiva Trust. We’ve just purchased 1,000 oak trees, which Shiva Trust are planting next week in their empty paddock (see picture). This brings our total number of trees planted to 2,140. Darren Turner
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Why business culture is an important thing?
In 1979 hall of fame NFL coach Bill Walsh inherited a terrible San Francisco 49ers team… Because of his track record and legendary status, expectations were sky high. But in his first year there was no improvement in the won loss record. The year before Walsh arrived, the 49ers won two with fourteen losses, which
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Even Jack Welch struggled with change…
Change is a critical part of business… You do need to change, preferably before you have too, something we wished we’d done much earlier than our business transformation back in 2015. What you’ve probably heard about resistance to change is also true. People hate it when you announce a transformation initiative. When we transformed from
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Kits for children to grow veg at home
Our tree planting charity partner Shiva Trust are doing an amazing thing… They are creating kits for children to grow veg at home. This is to support the children of families they already provide food parcels too, who are suffering from poverty / holiday hunger. In total they’re making 100 kits for Burnley and Rossendale
Lord Sugar
Lord Sugar – What You See is What You Get
I’ve always steered away from learning about Lord Sugar’s business ventures… Because I’d let false impressions (probably by the press) flood my thinking. Believing he just bought cheap electronics from japan and china and sold them on for a profit. After reading his autobiography ‘What You See is What You Get’ I must apologise and
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Why agreement financials must stack up?
Today, I want to give you some straight up honest advice… Please don’t let your supplier upgrade your agreement, without checking the financials stack up. This covers telephone systems, printer technology equipment and even IT systems. Why? Because you may end up financing fresh air, and it may cost you much more cash in the
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Are you a customer centric organisation?
Like him or loath Jeff Bezos, you’ve got to respect his foresight and customer acquisition strategy… When Bezos launched Amazon in 1994 why did he decide to sell books through an online marketplace? Books are heavy, are expensive to ship and generate small margins. At the time people were sceptical, with many business analysts asking
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