Back or forth?

Four i 520 BackorForth Article

In your monthly board meetings (feel free to substitute your own label/timetable), what percentage of time is spent analysing the recent performance and results to date? For many companies the answer is between 80-95% – which is crazy. If your senior team spends the majority of time together looking backwards, then it’s unlikely you’ll be […]

A traditional paradigm shift.

Four i 519 JoSwash Article

“What do each of you want to be when you grow up?” my mother asked my two brothers and I one morning at breakfast. I was 9, and my brothers 7 and 5. I can’t remember how Simon (middle brother) and I replied, but Jeremy exclaimed: “I want to be King” to which my mother […]

Subtractive change.

Four i 518 Subtractivechange Article

For many people and businesses, the tendency is to improve by addition. Additional features, extra services, more capacity, enlarged facilities… But might subtraction work as well, or better? To read the rest of this newsletter please click here. Join over 6,000 property professionals, including leading estate and letting agents and receive information, insight, ideas and […]

Slugs, Bunnies, Tigers & Owls.

Four i 517 Quadrant Article

I was 19 when I had my first “management” role. I was promoted from Sales Negotiator to manage a branch of Samuel Rains & Son estate agents (soon after to merge and become Reeds Rains). Was I the full article? – no way, I was far from that. But did the gamble pay off for […]

Lettings & Property Management Group With David Abbott

Calling all property managers and lettings professionals! Elevate your pricing game with insights from expert David Abbott. Join us on March 21st for an enriching group session hosted by Dawson’s in Swansea. Chaired by Richard Palfreeman, our Lettings and Property Management Group will take part in David’s fascinating session titled How To Price Your Platypus. […]

3C Leadership

Four i 516 3CLeadership Article

Jane Fraser is an inspiration to many people, and should be to many more. Hailing from St Andrews Scotland, and graduating from both Cambridge and Harvard, today she’s the first female CEO of a major US bank (Citigroup), whose global network enables the movement of the equivalent of Germany’s GDP each day across borders, currencies and asset […]

Growth.

Four i 515 Growth Article

For the past five years or so, many businesses have had one agenda item at their meetings – ‘Survival’. Now however, with improved conditions and renewed confidence, ‘Growth’ is the key focus. Whilst this is most welcome, and exciting, and above all a relief from the short term thinking of the past half decade, I’ve […]

SIEMARR

Four i 514 SIEMARR Article

Recently, I’ve observed several leaders who were frustrated by the lack of results they were getting from their efforts to coach members of their team. The problem wasn’t with the individuals, it was the failure to use perhaps the most important model when coaching, one introduced to me by the late, (great), business coach Ed […]