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8 of my top articles, all in one place…
One of the things its easy to forget when you’ve been blogging for a long time is all the great posts and content you’ve put together over the years. All that effort you put in, potentially lost in the mists of time. Unless a user finds your posts by a search engine, its unlikely they’ll [...]
Stop the Sabotage
I’m not sure why I find myself talking about hotels again is a disdainful manner, but that’s just the way it goes I guess. These are places which are supposed to hold the highest regard for customer service – it’s what much of their success is based upon. So today I witnessed one of the [...]
Optix Solutions is Recruiting – Can you Help Me?
We have an exciting new role at Optix Solutions – Maybe it’s for you or you know someone who could fit the bill. Here is the Job Ad from our main website which I’ve copied below (I apologise for the copy and paste but I’m not sure I can add much more than this already [...]
Delegate, don’t abdicate
A quick follow up on my last post about the art of delegating today. After a few conversations I had with people, spurred on from my last post, it struck me that I missed an absolutely vital point which many people don’t think of. Young managers and people new to delegating often mix up delegation [...]
Do what you do best and delegate the rest
When you start your own business and it’s just you (or a partner perhaps) you do everything. You do the sales, the accounts, the admin, the mail, the work itself…… the list goes on. When you find that you’re in a position to grow and take on specialists you must take those chances as they’ll [...]
Stop Worrying and Start Living
I was talking to some of my team yesterday and discussing how, in business, you simply have to face up to tough decisions and things you wouldn’t necessarily want to do given the choice. Last week I wrote about eating the frog which has struck a few chords it seems from comments and emails I’ve [...]
Thank You!
As I write this, at 8am on the morning of my birthday, I’ve already received numerous texts from people, tweets, linkedIn messages and facebook wall comments wishing me many happy returns. I’m actually quite overwhelmed by it. Thank you so much everyone. Many of the people on the social networks didn’t even know me a [...]
The No 1. Trait I want from my staff
Someone asked me today, “Alastair, what’s the number one trait you expect or want from your staff”. Hmm interesting – this made me think very hard. Some of the obvious ones sprang to mind immediately: Honesty Integrity Skilled Motivated Hard Working They all came close. Do you know what I ended up answering and on [...]
It’s Snow Joke – Tips for Keeping your Business Running in Adverse Conditions
Wow. A week of snow and the whole country grinds to a halt! So what does that mean for your business? What precautions have you put in place to deal with these extreme conditions or are you now wishing you had? Here’s a few things you should look into if you haven’t done so already. [...]
How Optix Solutions does ‘People to People’
Last week I wrote about People 2 People and Personal Branding. A few of you asked how we actually implement this in our businesses so I wanted to highlight this in today’s post – hopefully to give you some food for thought. I’m going to use Olivier Blanchard’s (The Brand Builder) post on this for [...]