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130 Reasons Why Some People Are Much More Successful In Business Than Others

What do we mean by “successful”? Everyone has their own idea. It could be making lots of money, building up a valuable business, becoming famous, making a difference to people, enjoying life, more holidays, more security or a mixture of these. This article will help give you a push towards being successful by highlighting 130 reasons that make things happen...

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Attitudes and Behaviours That Create Small Business Success

This Information Publication aims to illustrate an understanding of how small businesses operate, the factors that contribute to success and outline five distinct types of small business owners. With this insight, business owners can profit from the successful strategies and practices of business owners most like them.

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Business Cycles - How Small Businesses Can Identify and Finance Them

This publication is a quick guide to recognising business cycles, with hints on what to avoid and how to survive in each of them.

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Competitiveness - How The Best UK Companies Are Winning At Business

The study discussed in this publication is based on the views of the leaders of 121 UK-based businesses, put together with the intent of making your business more competitive.

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How To Survive... Lessons in Business Survival

It's vital to know whether your business is operating successfully and to ensure that you have the right information available to act quickly if a problem arises. Some of the things you must be aware of, or have access to, are listed below.

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Better Business Plans - and a Checklist for Success

This article is designed to help you document how your business is to be run. It takes you through the thought processes of compiling a business plan, allowing you to be better prepared in choosing the right option in your own particular circumstances to structure your business.

Restricted access - please email paul@plancs.co.uk for a free copy.


The Role of a Non-Executive Director

More and more companies - both public and private - are appointing non-executive directors to their Board.

Why has the appointment of non-executives become so important to so many companies? This publication answers that question, amongst many others, exploring the responsibilities of the Chairman and the findings of the Higgs Report.

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Are You On Target? ... As A Business Grows From Conception To Maturity, The Managerial Growing Pains Along The Way Pose Many Challenges.

This information publication asks the questions that you should consider if you want your business to grow…

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Customer Loyalty - The New Corporate Benchmark

Customer loyalty guru and leading consultant, Frederick Reichheld discusses the importance of maintaining customer loyalty and how it can be used to register the levels of success or failure in the modern business world.

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How "Excellence" In Business Can Make The Difference

The British Quality Foundation was established to enhance the performance and competitive advantage of organisations in the UK thereby ensuring their long-term success. By promoting improvement techniques within its integrated EFQM European Excellence Model, the Foundation aims to assist any organisation that wishes to meet the needs of its customers, its employees, its financial stakeholders as well as the community in which it operates. This information publication looks at the EFQM Business Excellence Model, self-assessment and ASSESS. It also looks at the UK Quality Award for Business Excellence and compares it to The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence which is used in the US. The publication also briefly tells you what ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 are and what they are not.

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Survival - How To Ensure That Your Business Is Fit To Face The Future

Living as we do in turbulent economic times, small and medium-sized enterprises are constantly facing the threat of losing customers, losing market share, seeing profits turn into losses and finding that they've run out of money. This guide will help point out invaluable advice towards your businesses survival in an uncertain world.

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Competitive Intelligence

Competitive intelligence is the process of monitoring the competitive environment. It enables senior managers in companies of all sizes to make informed decisions about everything from marketing, R&D, and investing tactics to long-term business strategies. This publication explores Competitive Intelligence as a key discipline in business marketing and strategy with emphasis on information content as well as information technology.

Corporate Vision - A Changing Picture - Now You See It, Now You Don't

Why are some companies and the people in them, able to successfully cope with change while others seem to make the whole process hard work and fail miserably at the task. This information publication covers this and discusses just what is needed to realise a corporate vision.

Eighteen Ways To Leverage Success In Your Business

Most businesses want to grow. That means several things – including growing your sales or income (volume) and also your margins (effectiveness). This Information Publication puts together 18 ways to leverage success for your business, many of them not costing you a penny.

Emotional Intelligence

This Information Publication details the history and recent developments in conceptualisation of a range of "people skills" called "emotional intelligence", and how it can benefit your business.

How Are We Doing? An Effectiveness Checklist For The Growing Business

This publication is designed to help the small business owner. It provides the small business entrepreneur with the essentials for conducting a comprehensive search for existing or potential problems. The checklist was designed with small businesses in mind and addresses their unique problems and opportunities.


Partnering - How Organisation And Their Suppliers Gain Through Trust And Cooperation

This publication demonstrates the benefits and important elements that go towards making up successful and constructive partnering relationship.

ART OF DELEGATION

Delegation is a skill most managers have heard about but which few properly understand and apply. The main problem is that managers are slow to delegate because they fear that no one will do the job properly, or as well as they could do it themselves. This guide helps to answer some of the questions that surround issues of when and to whom, one should delegate.




UNDERSTANDING THE PRESSURES ON SMALL BUSINESSES

Life hasn't ever been easy for small businesses, has it? Is it going to be any different this year or next year? We look at some of the things that businesses have to cope with.




WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY?

Business management has become a rich feeding ground for academic study, attempting to delve into what makes successful companies. We explain in four headings - Focus, Organisation, Measurement and Leadership - all helping to make a successful company.