What do we need to do in this new economy to grow our business? Repute: develop a reputation that you are proud to advertise. Make certain you deliver the incumbent value to prove you deserve that repute, and that it will hold up to scrutiny. Be known for something, specifically: obsessively specialise. No niche is [...]
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The Business Writing & Speaking Workshop personally delivered by Ric Willmot
Dates: Brisbane August 6 Sydney August 8 Melbourne August 14 For thousands of years, writing and speaking have been powerful ways for us to share our thoughts and ideas. Even in the technologically saturated 21st century, we still express ourselves in writing almost every day. To dramatically build accelerated growth in your business results, the [...]
Implementing a Start-up Strategy: One of the topics at the 4-Day MBA Program
How do you implement a start-up? How do you launch a new product? How do you prepare a new, diverse service to your stable of professional offerings? What will have the most significant, positive impact in the way you go-to-market? This is a sample of one of the topics covered in Ric Willmot’s MBA [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.108: Negating the naysayers quickly
Negating the naysayers They are those annoying people who never do anything brilliant themselves, but find it their duty to condemn and criticise every idea you offer to make a difference. “That will never work.” “We tried that back in 1977. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now.” “We don’t have the time/money/resources [...]
Friday Redux No.15: When I want your opinion, will you provide it?
Unsolicited feedback is given for the benefit of the sender not the receiver. Don’t concern yourself with those who come offering their criticisms, speculations and the like if you never asked them for it. I once had a woman thrust her business card into my face after I had given a conference keynote presentation telling [...]
You have to ask the right questions
In order to be an effective business leader, you need to become a better problem finder, not just a better problem solver. Organisational breakdowns and collapses tend to evolve over time, beginning with small errors that are compounded and eventually gained momentum. We need to become hunters who venture out in search of problems that [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.103: What are you doing? What should you be doing?
You create an idea for your business. You get everyone together to discuss it. You wrangle over the merits or otherwise of pushing forward with this new idea. The idea has its supporters and it has detractors, as well, of course. (There’s always somebody who thinks it’s their role to say no to a new [...]
25 ways to turbocharge your brain power
25 ways to turbocharge your brain power Improve your vocabulary. Take a different route home from work, regularly. Do crosswords, solve puzzles and brainteasers. Become comfortable with ambiguity. Reverse your assumptions. Look further than the first, correct answer. Be curious. Have your own mental sanctuary. Debate (not argue) and defend your position on matters, intellectually. [...]
Mix and match ideas to serve your clients
Creativity choked? Mix and match ideas to serve your clients. “The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages & kings.” In the 4th Millennium BC, hard bronze was invented in Susa (Iran) by mixing soft copper with small amounts of an [...]
Business Thinking Skills and Ambiguity
Our education system has trained us to NOT want to be wrong. But the fear of being wrong limits our ability to think with creativity, innovation and imagination.Behavioural economics explains that we would rather be precisely wrong than moderately right. The Chinese have two lions on pillars outside of every temple of worship. These temples [...]
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