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9 smart ways to get the most out of meetings
Veteran financier Ray Dalio has been in every kind of meeting: the good, the bad and the ugly. Here’s how he keeps his meetings focused and productive. In 1974, Ray Dalio founded…
Improving your business decision making skills
by Srini Pillay for The Harvard Business Review. We are faced with the need to make decisions every day. Should we bring product A or B to market? Which marketing…
7 Management Practices to Improve Employee Productivity
By Victor Lipman for Forbes. All companies want to improve employee productivity, but how often do they examine their own management practices as a means of attaining it? This Dale Carnegie Study showed…
How to build a company where the best ideas win
What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making…
Fight. Flight. Freeze in Business
The phrase “fight or flight” was coined in the 1920s to describe key behaviour that occurs in the context of a perceived threat. It evolved as a survival mechanism and…
Will Small Business weather a rising minimum wage?
Written by Rob Drower and John Cleghorn, Managing Partners – Prime Strategies Group Most of you will be well aware that the minimum wage rate will increase to $16.50 as of…
Finding time is flying by – and you’re still not having fun?
Article by John Cleghorn, Business Management Consultant & Prime Strategies Group Partner. Here we are in yet another year. Time seems to go by so quickly, doesn’t it? So, for…
Proactively managing resistance to change
Change Management and coping with organisational changes is always a high risk field, but if done correctly, can make your business stronger than ever. 5 Tips that help manage resistance…
5 Ways to prepare for change & engage your team
A great article by the aptly-named Peter Economy for inc.com. Buy-outs, downsizing, staff changes, market changes – there are so many ways a business can transform literally overnight. While these…
Insights into becoming more resilient
One key business skill that is frequently over-looked is resilience. Being in business is an ever-changing journey, as markets wax and wane and industries evolve with technology – and all…
Business Books to help you get ahead In 2018
Entrepreneur published this list of the top 28 books for business professionals to read in 2018. “Reading has been noted as one of the primary habits of ultra-successful people, with magnates…
Have you finalised your 2018 Strategic Planning?
“Great business leaders realize four primary benefits through emerging best practices and the perfect blend of strategy and execution.” “Average and poor performing companies tend to procrastinate their planning efforts,…