POPULARISED BY ISAAC GETZ IN 2009, CAN THE TERM « LIBERATED COMPANY » APPLY TO AN SME? FIRSTLY, WHAT IS A LIBERATED COMPANY? As you will see from the many articles on the subject, the concept of a liberated company is based on the idea that employees are best placed to know what to do internally to …
Here are three key ideas to guide you to success: call on an external consultant to make your thinking more productive; be detached, but don’t ignore the detail; and finally, don’t concern yourself with macroeconomics: the No. 1 advantage of an SME is that it can escape the underlying trends of the market. SWIM FASTER …
When an organisation stops growing and needs to move to the next stage, or wants to engage in a real growth project, it’s essential to communicate a vision, to give direction each employee, to guide and inspire them. Indeed, a thriving business is one which is constantly rethinking, reorganising and changing strategy, without ever ignoring its …
don’t try to fix stagnation by re-structuring: ORGANIsATIONAL PROBLEMS ARE MOST OFTEN solved by GROWTH. Some businesses are just coasting. This doesn’t mean that they are in a nose-dive, but simply that they are stagnating. Turnover is no longer improving, profitability is imperceptibly reducing, employees and the Owner/Manager are becoming demotivated (the two often go …
During the 2008 crisis, we rediscovered the virtues of family businesses. They offer a lot of advantages over listed companies: stable shareholding, long-term management, prudence and low levels of debt. So much so, that they were referred to as « the last bastions in the crisis » in a study by the UBS bank. WHAT IS A …
It can be difficult to look at your business objectively when it’s been going for ten years or more. Here’s A real-life scenario: A couple of months ago, we met a man in his fifties, at an SME networking club. He’d taken over an industrial cleaning company some 13 years previously. Since then, he‘d moved into …
