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Busy setting your business 2020 vision? Business plans aplenty will be littered with the time-honoured cliché and a pun full of endless optimism. But will you dare to be different to stand out from the crowd in 2020? That’s when most businesses go all timid, tucking in among the preferred safety...
It wasn’t just Marvin Gaye who thought that he’d ‘heard it through the grapevine’ – in crooner Marvin’s case ‘that you’re no longer going to be mine’. And well, that’s true for many businesses and organisations too. Your customers or other stakeholders – be they staff, partners (family and...
Accompanying this blog is a photo of myself and some mates sweaty and post-gig from the farewell tour of one of Britain’s finest ever bands, The Jam, in 1982. We hired a van and cruised down to St Austell for a memorable weekend. The photo inspired most...
Thank you. Two small words that mean so much. In saying a big thank you to everyone who attended our Business Media Club sixth anniversary meeting and helping make it so special it is also important to realise we need move things forward. At the end...
Six years and counting… That’s how long the CGM Business Media Club has been running and as we celebrate our sixth anniversary we’ll embark on a new 2019-20 programme by encouraging members to set their own 2020 vision. 20/20 vision means an entire sight assessment and that’s exactly...
Thinking Allowed. I just love the duality of that phrase and the Radio 4 programme of the same name presented by Laurie Taylor. It sums up the station. No radio station in the world inspires fresh, free thinking like Radio 4 – it is the best...
Back in the 1970s high-pitched soul supremos The Stylistics sang Let’s Put it All Together in typical beautiful falsetto fashion. Proof, if needed, of the virtue of harmony. As the CGM Business Media Club 2018-19 series comes to a conclusion, this month’s meeting will focus on harmony – putting all the...
Most businesses believe they’re Teflon when it comes to a crisis. Not so. If your company’s reputation suffers a blow, statistics show that your survival chances are slim. The stone-cold fact is that 80 per cent of businesses that suffer a crisis fold within two years. That figure rises nearer...
Reputation matters more than any other aspect of business. Unconvinced? Well think on – 90 per cent of businesses that suffer a loss of data go out of business within 18 months. Why? Because no one trusts them anymore. Their reputation is shattered. Customers (and maybe suppliers and...
What is the most important attribute of every business? It is reputation. Reputation is cut from the same character cloth as trust, integrity, reliability and responsibility. And reputations are never fixed – they can be won, lost and sometimes shredded in seconds. Not that having ‘a reputation’...
