Stop Blaming Your Network

  by Dr Ivan Misner: 
Not getting the referrals you want? Stop pointing fingers and start taking charge of your company’s success.
One of the problems people often have when they establish a referral network is that once they feel unsatisfied with their referrals, they blame people in the network for not doing their jobs.
But the truth [...]

Problems Are Great!

Every day, the news is full of the economic downturn and how it impacts on us.
I often hear people speaking of how much money they have lost in shares, how tough things are in business and how tough they are going to get.
Are you doing it tough with money invested or with your business?
Are you [...]

Givers Gain

My enquiry into leadership has led me to ‘The Art of Loving’ by Erich Fromm.  Fromm is one of the major figures in the field of psychoanalysis – and the book is an investigation into the role of love as the ultimate need and desire of all human beings.  It is his comments on ‘Giving’ [...]

Simple and succinct business planning on one page

by Merv Neal
In the 20th Century we made an art form out of complicating our Business Planning process. The bigger and more complex the plan the better the plan… RIGHT?… WRONG!
Maybe that was OK for last century but let’s face it, we just don’t seem to have as much time anymore. For this reason [...]

Reflections from a new BNI member

Donna Roy is a Massage Therapist and a new BNI member of Hutt Catalysts in Lower Hutt. Donna is already aware of how BNI can benefit her business (on her second visit to the Hutt Catalysts meeting alone, one of the members purchased massage vouchers for his wife for Christmas, effectively paying for her BNI [...]