We’re beginning to dare to think about the post-Covid world. Not that we’re at all out of the woods yet, and there’s no guarantee there won’t be further lockdowns, but at least we can think about the future. That hasn’t been easy for more than a year. The one thing that can be predicted about […]
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Well, 2020 is out of the way, and there won’t be many who’ll mourn it. It’s tempting to think that everything would have changed at midnight on New Year’s Eve, but of course it hasn’t. We’re back in lockdown — but one of the main continuities I’ve noticed is that I’m still working flat out,
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We small business owners tend to have an affliction — especially if we’re one-man-bands. We often assume we have to do everything ourselves. After all, it’s my business, isn’t it? I’m complete and self-sufficient — why would I want anyone else helping me run it? The Lone Pioneer There can be good reasons why
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The traditional view of business is a cut-throat, dog-eat-dog world, governed by the law of the jungle. This is perhaps true to some extent of big business — the huge national and multinational corporations who (allegedly, of course) are often not above using dirty tricks against one another and against the public. But what about
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Is it best to be an optimist or a pessimist, either in your personal life or in your business? Well, that depends. Optimism and pessimism aren’t as easy to define as you might think. The classic definition is the “glass half full” and “glass half empty”. That does well enough, until you wonder what’s in
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I’m not a natural business person. That may seem an odd, even risky, thing to admit to, but I don’t think it’s all that unusual among small business owners, especially sole traders. And it doesn’t mean I can’t learn to run a business. It seems to me that two kinds of people start small businesses
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