NZBusiness July 2015

Treating your business goals as projects gives them a much better chance of being achieved. Dr Mike Ashby explains.  I’ve been thinking a lot about the wrestling that goes on between “in” and “on”, or as I described it in the last column, your job vs the business.  Another way of distinguishing these is between BAU (Business – or Busyness – as Usual) on the one hand and special effort on the other. Busyness As Usual gives us the expected results for the usual input and activity. It’s all the stuff that gets generated by being in business – interactions with clients, prospects, staff, suppliers, etc. It comes at us at least as fast (often faster) than our ability to process

Is your relationship with money sabotaging your business success? Lynda Moore offers some insightful advice.  Managing your business and personal finances should be easy, shouldn’t it? Spend less than you earn, pay yourself first and don’t forget the taxman; easy peasy. But if it’s so easy why do so many businesses struggle? Many small businesses are started by ‘doers’. The amazing architect, plumber, doctor or personal trainer goes ‘out on their own’. They are fantastic at their profession but they don’t know how to run a business.  The customers get the blame; “they don’t pay me on time”, or it’s the IRD; “I’m paying too much tax” or “I hate doing the paperwork.”  Business owners haven’t been taught financial management, so that