Vicissitude

The eighth in our series of 12 this month’s word in the heart of holiday season is Vicissitude.The dictionary says that vicissitude means variability, unexpected change The ups and downs of a business lifeI think the ability to deal with the unexpected is at the heart of a successful business. Not just the unexpected negative […]

APTITUDE AND INEPTITUDE

July Marks the 7th of our series of blogs so I though there is a value in doing a quick recap of the story so far.In January we talked about the ATTITUDE, approach and mind-set needed for a new year to be different from the last one.  How important is that as we look to […]

ALTITUDE – HOW HIGH CAN YOU REACH?

So it’s June, Already!  The secondary schools close today until September, the long leisurely days of the summer stretch before us and we could just roll through and allow the silly season to start early in our business.Instead let’s talk instead about the ALTITUDE of our goals for the next 3 months.90 days, less 14 […]

Longitude

The deeper I go into this series of blogs on “itudes” the more it reveals to me.Longitude follows Latitude as night follows day and nothing is truly positioned without knowing the accurate longitude. This is calculated by the position of the sun and a chronometer – a very accurate timepiece. (actually all of this is […]

Latitude

The next 2 blogs in this series are intricately interwoven in more ways than one. They are Latitude and Longitude.  In a navigational sense the two are related to the exact positioning of a ship or location So for example Dublin’s co ordinates are 53.35° North of the equator and  6.26° West of GreenwichWhen we […]

Fortitude

Month 3 of our new series brings me to a word I remembered from my confirmation back in 1973. They told me it was something I might get on the spot as a gift.  It took a long time before I began to experience it. It’s an old word, rarely used now but it is […]

“If you always do what you always did…”

Last month I wrote about Attitude to business, life and success.I want to build on that theme over the next few months.So I’ve invented a word to describe my thoughts on  The attitude of Strategy – Strattitude.Where we have to start, is by asking three strategic questions:What do I want to achieve over the next […]

A Change of Mind for 2017 – Attitude

ON THE ONE HAND:We have the things we always did, that always worked, so as general Patton said: “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it”.ON THE OTHER HAND:We have new ideas, but they are untried. We don’t know if they will work. And up the middle is FEARFear of letting goFear of ChangeFear of it not […]