Consulting made simple
Where would you like to be in X amount of time from now? What are your long-term goals and what are you doing to achieve them?Say that you want to work as a CEO of a multinational company. I believe we all agree that it takes more than merely sending CVs for relevant job openings.You Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #71: What’s the next step?[…]
Everybody loves processes, right? They make our lives easy: No need to think about it, just follow the process, tick the boxes and boom, effortless result! But is this a good result? A useful result? A meaningful result? Process-based working certainly has a strong following, their primary arguments being that processes reduce the time it Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #70: Trust your judgement.[…]
When I am discussing with people about their career aspirations, trying to understand why they may want to leave one job for another, the most common reply that I receive is that they have reached some sort of a glass ceiling in their current post and that they therefore need to move elsewhere, if they Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #69: What’s your ceiling?[…]
I have purposefully avoided (until now) to make any comments on the current situation in the Eastern Mediterranean (“Eastmed”) because some could consider me biased, which would immediately reduce the value of my views on the subject. That may be the case indeed on one hand, but on the other, because the issue is of Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #68: That’s not fair.[…]
Try remembering a place that you visit often. You usually (if not always) approach it from the same angle, right? Take your office for example. If you have a private parking place like many of us do, you will always approach from the same angle. You will approach the office entrance from where your parking Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #67: Perspective can be everything.[…]
More and more large companies tend to eliminate job titles over the last few years, claiming that such a move increases employee engagement and potential for cooperation among colleagues, by effectively decentralizing decision-making. For those who are unaware, this is a practice that has been predominantly used among startups with great success, so at first Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #66: The roadmap.[…]
I developed increasingly close relations with the ugly lately. After exploring a series of investment opportunities, I came to a realization: That appearances don’t always matter. Hence the “ugly” part of my title. Although it may not always make sense to compare largely different assets, I believe that comparing various real estate holdings to each Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #65: The good, the bad and the ugly.[…]
As pointed out in many of my previous posts, the “financial models” that I receive when working with many private clients, are anything but that. What I oftentimes receive is a strange mix between income statement and cash flow, whereby invoiced items are recorded on the date of the issuance of the invoice, whereas all Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #64: Financial management for SMEs in the CoViD-19 era.[…]
The Net Working Capital (“NWC”) is one of the most overlooked elements of a business. The reason for this, is that most business leaders typically focus on the Income Statement (“IS”) when trying to assess the performance of their business. Cash flow management usually entails the reviewing of the projected short-term (up to a year) Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #63: Performance improvement – The NWC case[…]
This is probably one of the most ambiguous titles that I have used in any blogpost, but I think it is for a good reason. You see, the European Commission released last week a great report on the impact of demographic change on the future of the EU. To cut a long story short, the Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #62: The mosaic and the melting pot[…]