One challenge new GMs will we face is how to build a strategy or reposition a business with a new strategy. Let me tell you a story. I was in San Francisco with some customers, flying to Las Vegas, booked on Southwest Airlines. As usual we milled around the departure gate, like you did then, waiting to board, having never flown Southwest. … Read more
3 steps to Scaling your business to success
There are occasions when your new General Managers role is into a new company, a startup or off-shoot of a successful business. As a new GM how can you create a successful business?
Scaling a business to success is the key challenge in all start ups and for all businesses.
After doing some reading and research, here’s my view of a process through the complete lifecycle of a startup company to give you a clear direction to follow as you intelligently scale your business.… Read more
Business pyramid
Over the past few weeks I have created several posts about the role of the Board of Directors within business. I trust the Labour cartoon from 1911 depicting how they viewed business hierarchy is not so applicable to your business.
The diagram me below, is a neat way of visualising the roles and responsibilities of different levels within a business hierarchy;
In a quick summary format this succinctly describes the functions and responsibilities of the different levels of management within an organization. … Read more

