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Count more than the money - Click To Read Article
Counting the money you make tells you how well you did last week or last month - not how well you are going to do in the future. For that you need a more balanced view.

Go to Gemba! - Click To Read Article
There are times when it is not enough to listen to what people tell you about a situation .. and especially a problem. You have to see, smell and feel for yourself what is really going on.

Achieving Peak Performance
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Athletes are trained to reach peak performance through a regime of coaching and mentoring. If they fail to reach world-class performance levels, they fail to achieve significant rewards. There are ways of applying the same concepts of coaching to business staff and even to teams of staff. Make sure your key staff achieve their maximum potential by reaching their peak performance.

There is always a better way!
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The 'big boys' call it continuous improvement. We know it is just common sense - always looking at what you are doing and finding ways of doing it better. This tells you the questions to ask ... to get the right answers.

How do you make your company competitive
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To be competitive, you need an advantage over the other players in your markets - a better product/service or a better way of getting it to the customer.

Running out of office space?
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Growing companies need more space ... and space is expensive. Hot desking is one way of controlling costs - and keeping your 'road warriors' out there for most of their time - getting more leads, making more sales.

Waste Not!
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Waste is not the stuff you throw in the bin. It is all the things you do in your business that waste time and money. The Japanese know a thing or two about getting rid of waste ... why not learn from them.

Getting Rid of Waste
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Follows on from "Waste Not!" and shows the practical things you can do to reduce the time and money doing things you should not be doing!

Critical Success Factors
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If you don't know the few, really important things you need to carry out to achieve your mission - how can your staff. Identify them - and communicate them. Then everyone knows where to focus their efforts.

Becoming lean and mean
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The 'lean' philosophy stated at Toyota - but can be (and should be) applied to any business. It is very simple - keep things flowing and avoid waste. Read more!

Innovation - it's easier than you think
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Innovation is not the 'big idea' that transforms your business or how you do it. Well, it might be but innovations can be small - but still important. If you try to hard for the revolution, you might miss the small but crucial improvements that can change your business.

Innovation is simple!
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Innovation can be simple - but we have to put in place the processes that make it so. Otherwise, our employees remain disengaged and non-creative.

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Productivity is my 'bag' ... it is what I know about. I am President of the World Confederation of Productivity Science -www.wcps.info and Director of the National Productivity Centre in the UK www.n atprodcentre.com - go to this site for some good free resources and some (paid for but low price) e-learning on productivity. I also edit the International Journal of Productivity & Performance Management. My views on productivity and on learning (which I think are related) are summarised at www.johnhe ap.net .... and current productivity news and views are on my blog - w ww.donotcomplicate.blogspot.com
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