Everything about a job interview is hush hush in most small businesses. When candidates come in they are rushed away to a room and after the chat (Aka interview) they are rushed out of the door so no one knows anything more than they should. The only thing the candidate knows about the work and…
Author: Suresh Rajani
Misinformation in plenty
Was reading a finance article and came across a piece of article that claimed that a certain company is suffering X millions of dollar loss per month because of a certain virus. Massive number I thought, let me look around and see if this is true. Checked around and came across articles that said: X…
Putting your money where your home is
There is always need to support your local businesses but if a disaster strikes or the economy is not going well the need to buy local and support local small businesses multiplies. Outsourcing services to overseas providers, sourcing cheaper ingredients or importing products might save you a few dollars but at times as business leaders…
Same Difference
Looking for flights for future travel I was comparing flights on a couple of sites. To my surprise the same flights were 3.7 times higher on one of the sites compared to the others. Flights have become a commodity and surely there was no difference as both were exactly the same classes and same times…
Progress can be slow
All businesses have flaws in plenty (including mine and yours and anyone else’s you know) and as owners and decision makers we should all be working to eliminate them so we can have a near perfect business that gives us the best opportunity to deliver to clients what we set out to deliver in the…
Decisions need to make business sense
As the German retailer Kaufland decides to pull out of its expansion plans in Australia, its time for all business owners to remember that just because you have made a business decision and are so much advanced and invested in it, it doesn’t always mean you have to go through with it at any cost….
Seek the changes that help your business and you would find them
Ever thought of buying a particular car and then all of a sudden you seem to see the same make of car on the road more than before or ever thought of buying a home and then all of a sudden you seem to notice a whole lot of for sale boards? This is obviously…
Just passion is not enough in business.
If you see any business for sale listings, you would note that the most common businesses for sale are cafes/restaurants, fitness related or hair salons and despite what the listing might say to sell them, they are just not sustainable in the economic sense. They are all businesses highly driven by passion but yet chances…
The need for decision makers to understand a business
A successful business that has been going from strength to strength has to provide the banks with their business plan as part of their general review on a periodic basis. The bank manager says that the business plan is the same as the one we provided in the last review. My client and I explain…
4 business lessons from playing video games.
My school holidays were heavily used to play video games. We would play Super Mario Bros and Contra for hours. What a waste of time, you might think and I might just agree but unknowingly I was also training myself into four very important business mindsets: Know where you want to end up (rescuing the…