Category Archives: Performance Improvement

What’s Your Nuclear Deterrent?

The UK effectively stopped being a superpower once the US entered WW2. Since then its empire has disappeared and its power and influence on the international stage has steadily reduced. Most US eyes look east, not west, when seeking strategic … Continue reading

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Customer Hindrance (Part 2)

Following my previous examples of customer hindrance (the opposite of customer service) at play, here are a couple more from the last few days. Alliance & Leicester Bank I queued for over 20 minutes to pay some cheques into my … Continue reading

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There Are Only 10 Ways To Grow Profits

Despite the innumerable books, articles, videos consultancy services, and management courses on the subject, there are still only 10 ways. Which of the 10 are most likely to deliver profitable growth for your business? The answer to that question will … Continue reading

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The Trouble With Quick Wins

Is that they usually aren’t. There are three reasons: Their impact is too small to register on any performance scale as a ‘win’. This means that the project is never at the top of anyone’s list of priorities and is … Continue reading

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The Opposite Of Customer Service

Is Customer Hindrance, and is defined as a company’s ability to make it harder, more expensive and less rewarding for their customers to do business with them. Perhaps surprisingly, many companies still think that this is the way to go … Continue reading

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Stop Trying To Be So Clever

We spend so much time trying to find clever, sophisticated solutions to our problems that we can miss the simple, obvious ones. A new dual carriageway is being built close to our village (a remnant of the Labour party’s response … Continue reading

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England 0 World Cup Lessons 5

Click on the link to read my article, England 0 World Cup Lessons 5, which has just been posted on BNET. Warning: if you don’t want to know the score, look away now! © Stuart Cross 2010. All rights reserved.

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How To Be More Selfish At Work

Click on the link to read my article, How To Be More Selfish At Work, which has just been posted on BNET. © Stuart Cross 2010. All rights reserved.

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Should You Be More Selfish?

I am increasingly convinced that success requires a certain level of selfishness that many managers and executives are simply unwilling to reach. Rather than run the risk of upsetting one of their colleagues, or, even worse, their boss, they toe … Continue reading

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Lessons From A Year Of Coaching

For the past 12 months or so I have added coaching services to my business, and have been helping successful executives become more effective. There is a lot of mystique surrounding coaching, but it is a relatively simple, common sense … Continue reading

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