positivepotential's blog

The New Zealand economy is growing strongly and is forecast to do so for the immediate term.  The effects of the Global Financial Crises are dissipating and businesses are returning to their pre-recession health.  The baby boomer generation is looking to make that move towards retirement and businesses are starting to change hands. Sometimes the

Olivia Giles was working as a lawyer in Edinburgh when, in 2002, she caught meningococcal septicaemia. On what was an ordinary day she began to feel ill at work. She thought it was a very bad cold, but it was much more severe. The symptoms were in fact blood poisoning. Olivia’s condition deteriorated rapidly.

It is so easy to believe the things we do, and the way we do them, are "good enough".  In a competitive and fast moving world sometimes "good enough" is just not enough.  It can breed complacency and allow others to take business from you.  Once that starts to gain momentum it can be very difficult to recover from.  Businesses that look to the f