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What makes a good culture? Hit the slopes to find out! Here’s a pic of yours truly atop Mount Cardona, a ski resort near Queenstown, NZ. I have just returned from a wonderful week – good snow cover , blue skies and friendly people – the trifecta. This is the ‘before picture’, taken just a…

Growing Pain #3: Culture. A common growing pain for any business is a failure to adjust the culture as the business gets bigger. The reason culture is hard is because it is typically made up of the ‘unwritten rules’ and can be difficult to clearly define, let alone implement. Choosing a culture should always be done…

Growing Pain #2: Structure. Just do what the ants do! I stumbled across an article on ant colonies and how they organise themselves, here is an excerpt.. “Ant colonies are a superorganism. Just like no single cell is in control of your body, no ant controls the colony. Each colony has very specific roles. Queens are…

Growing Pain #1 – Leadership As we discussed last time, the three most common Growing Pains for Businesses are Leadership, Structure and Systems/processes. All three need to keep evolving as the Business grows. The leadership skills, structure and processes required for a Business turning over $3 million is different to a $20 m Business, and different again to…

3 Key Growing Pains For All Businesses We recently built a new house – it was a painful 12-month process but we made it and we are very happy with the end product. Aside from everything being ‘new’, the best aspect is the size. We can actually move around in comfort. We were a family of…

Stages Have you ever felt your Business is like a child, forever passing through different phases? As soon as you think you’ve got it sorted, the next phase emerges with a different set of problems. The reprieve from dirty nappies can quickly give way to sibling rivalry, peer pressure challenges, career choices, relationship issues etc…

Are you stuck in the trenches? An interesting thing happens with growth, there are consequences. Most growth stories follow a similar pattern: Business starts off being really good at what they do The process of running the Business is loose, which works well Enough time passes and the Business becomes bigger and more complex The…