by real_phil | Jul 9, 2018 | Points Of Focus
Thinking back to second year chemistry, I am sure you remember the way a Litmus Test works… to test whether a substance is alkaline or acid, the litmus paper is dipped in. If it turns red, that’s acid. If it turns blue, that’s alkaline. For our Business Success Litmus...
by real_phil | Jul 2, 2018 | Points Of Focus
OK, I couldn’t resist jumping on the World Cup bandwagon… As we reach the mid-year point, how is yours going so far? ● a stretching soaring success? ● an incremental increase on last year? ● a so-so, normal- normal, business-as-usual kind of year? Nothing worse I...
by real_phil | Jun 25, 2018 | Points Of Focus
There’s an old joke about a young English couple, touring around Ireland, who stop one of the locals and ask, “I say, old chap, can you tell us the way to the nearest pub?” Paddy replies, “Well, if I was you I wouldn’t be starting from here.” Sometimes in business...
by real_phil | Jun 18, 2018 | Points Of Focus
On 18th June 1815, in present-day Belgium, the battle of Waterloo was fought, and brought the “Napoleonic era” to a dramatic close. The combined forces of The Duke of Wellington (a polyglot army of British, Dutch-Belgians, Hanoverians, Brunswickers, and more) and...
by real_phil | Jun 11, 2018 | Points Of Focus
It’s understandable… Many business people end up in a quagmire of low-grade activity, or appear to be running round and round on the hamster wheel, unable to see beyond the 400 emails in the inbox, the landfill site of an in-tray, the bumper-to-bumper meeting jam that...