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The Journey from Fragility to Antifragility in Business.

The Journey from Fragility to Antifragility in Business.

by John Olivant | Dec 15, 2023 | Business Growth

Why You Need To Embrace The Unpredictable. In a world where change is the only constant, businesses face an ongoing challenge: how to survive and thrive in an environment that is often unpredictable and volatile. This question is at the heart of Nassim Nicholas...
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Business Planning

  • Deliberate Decision Making
  • Project Management Triangle
  • Business Diagnostics & Action Bias.
  • When to walk away in business
  • Festina Lente is really Strategic Business Planning.
  • “Business Deadlines Are Negotiable: If You Know What to Say”
  • The Hidden Danger of Benchmarking: How Copying Competitors Holds You Back.
  • Stop Measuring the Wrong Things: How to Turn Ambition into Real Progress.
  • Business Strategy (Case Study)
  • Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Business Strategy of All.
  • “Why Most Small Businesses Fail to Change (Until It’s Too Late)”
  • Business Assumptions aren’t the problem—being blind to them is.
  • The Quality Illusion: Why Most Small Businesses Can’t Deliver What They Promise.
  • Are You Underperforming? It Might Be a Business Design Problem.
  • ​​“Digital Disruption in Business. Don’t Be the Next Kodak.”
  •  What Business Are You Really In?
  • The Only Business Planning Framework You’ll Ever Need.
  • The Power of Planning
  • “The Simple Innovation Framework Every Small Business Should Use”.
  • Hope Is Not a Strategy: How to Stop Guessing and Start Forecasting Like a Pro.
  • Action Bias: Why Planning Beats Panic Every Time.
  • Entrepreneurial Myths: Five That Are Holding You (and Your Business) Back.
  • “The Hidden Negotiation Strategy Mistakes That Are Costing You Growth”
  • The Five Business Planning Assumptions You’re Probably Overlooking.
  • The 90-Day Business Plan
  • Good Strategy Isn’t Complicated — It’s Essential.
  • “Why You Don’t Need the Perfect 90 Day Business Plan — Just One You’ll Actually Run”
  • “How Better Planning Leads to Smarter Business Decisions”
  • Successful Business Plans: Why Preplanning Changes Everything.
  • Startup Mindset for Mature Businesses.
  • Pivoting in business. How Strategic Shifts Can Save and Grow Your Business.
  • “Business Planning Assumptions”
  • The Art Of War. Sun Tzu’s Secrets for Small Business Success.
  • The Ultimate Goal-Setting Framework and Execution Plan.
  • Are You Caught in the Business Planning Paradox?
  • Why Lean Business Planning Is the Smartest Move for Small Business Owners.
  • “Is Your Business Ready to Scale? Here’s How to Know for Sure!”
  • “From Chaos to Clarity: Steps to Building a Self-Managing, Growth-Ready Business”
  • “Scaling Your Business, Unlocking Growth Strategies for Small Businesses.”
  • “From Mediocre to Monumental: Elevate Your Profit Margins Through Superior Quality and Efficiency.”
  • The Top Business Planning Mistakes to Avoid (Part Two)
  • The Top Business Planning Mistakes to Avoid (Part One)
  • What People Really Think About Business Planning!
  • Lessons in Business Planning from the Sydney Opera House
  • Why you need to build a high-value self-managing business.
  • Is starting a business right for you?
  • Thinking about buying a small business?
  • Six ways to value your business and how to attract buyers
  • The 3 types of entrepreneurs, which one are you?
  • The Business Owner’s Journey (A tale of happiness and woe).
  • The Business Owners Guide To Using Differentiation As A Competitive Strategy
  • Think Business Strategy Is Just for The Big Boys’
  • The Four Cylinder Business Engine.
  • Re-think, Reset, Re-start
  • Are you asking the right questions, of you and your business?
  • The Great British Bake Off. A lesson in decision making.
  • We’d all like 20/20 vision for making business decisions
  • The Four Entrepreneurial Freedoms (only for business owners).
  • What gets measured gets done. How to achieve your goals.
  • What a visit to the podiatrist can teach you about the customer journey.
  • Why You Need A Value Proposition And How To Make One.
  • How to identify your niche market in 6 easy steps!
  • Your Business Numbers – the ones that REALLY Do Matter
  • If you’ve been putting off writing your business plan, you’re not alone
  • Business planning is for all businesses, not just for start-ups.
  • The 5 C’s you need for success in life and business planning.
  • Why it doesn’t take 100% more effort to Double your business
  • The Small Business Planning Fallacy
  • Are you a Reluctant Entrepreneur?

Pricing

  • Directional Pricing
  • The Value Triangle
  • Pricing Signals: The Hidden Reason You Keep Underpricing
  • “Stop Justifying Your Prices: How Value Is Really Created”
  • “The Strategic Pricing Blueprint”
  • Pricing Objections and Signals.
  • Pricing Signals. Are you misreading them?
  • “Master Pricing Strategies. 7 Expert Techniques to Increase Sales and Keep Customers Happy”
  • Are you charging enough? How to establish value. (Part Two)
  • Are you charging enough? How to establish value. (Part One)
  • “Boost Your Sales with Smart Pricing: Lessons from Nobel-Winning Theories.”
  • How Pricing Context Can Boost Your Profits.
  • How to conduct a Pricing Audit.
  • Sticky Pricing “Coke’s 73 years of Nickels”.
  • The Art of Ethical Pricing: Balancing Profit, People, and Perceived Value.
  • Differential Pricing: The Art of Flexible Pricing and Its Prolific Impact.
  • The three golden rules of pricing.
  • Should I put my prices on my website?
  • Are Crazy Low Prices Damaging Your Business?
  • Why Pricing Context Really Matters to You and Your Business?
  • Do you make these common PRICING Mistakes

Marketing

  • Marketing Strategy for Small Businesses: The Only Two Questions You Need to Answer
  • Niche Market Strategy: Why Narrowing Your Focus Actually Expands Your Market.
  • Sales Success Factors: Selling Is Easy When Prospects Are Ready.
  • Try Before You Buy Strategy
  • The Danger of Being a Follower (Why You Need A Market Dominating Position).
  • “Why Understanding Your Business Growth Is Non-Negotiable Before Outsourcing”
  • How to Create Local Market Dominance. Making Your Business “7-Mile Famous”
  • Differential Pricing: The Art of Flexible Pricing and Its Prolific Impact.
  • Why understanding the Psychological Contract is vital!
  • The three golden rules of pricing.
  • Scarcity based marketing explained.
  • Inside Reality Versus Outside Perception.
  • The Secret Marketing Equation Revealed.
  • Are You Missing Out? Poor Prospecting Strategy?
  • Should I put my prices on my website?
  • Are Crazy Low Prices Damaging Your Business?
  • The Myth of ‘Word of Mouth’ Marketing
  • Moments of Truth (and why they matter to every business).
  • Why are you making it so hard! (WAYMISH)
  • A little mistake that makes your marketing worse than useless!
  • The Venn Diagram of Customer Acquisition
  • What you need to know about FOMO based marketing
  • What a walk through a Christmas Market can teach you!
  • What is a Reticular Activator and what’s it got to do with my dog!
  • 5 Strategies to successfully build a new customer base
  • Why Pricing Context Really Matters to You and Your Business?
  • What defines an SME and why does it matter?
  • Ten Questions To Ask When Profiling Your Customers.
  • Do you make these common PRICING Mistakes
  • Why You Need A Value Proposition And How To Make One.
  • Avoiding The Discounting Trap.
  • How to set the optimum price for your product
  • Understanding the Buyer’s Journey
  • Charming your way to price success, why the Number 9 is Magic!
  • The Secrets to raising your prices without losing customers (pt.3)
  • The Secrets to raising your prices without losing customers (pt.2)
  • The Secrets to raising your prices without losing customers (pt.1)
  • What Job Marketing Is Really SUPPOSED To Do In your Business.
  • Business Cards, why nearly everyone is wrong about them. How to fix this!
  • How to Compete With FREE and Be Successful.
  • Marketing Services Vs Products. Is there a difference?
  • The business owners guide to getting your emails opened.
  • What’s in a name? How To Name Your Product.
  • The 5 phases of a successful negotiation to know.
  • Why You Need to Identify Your Ideal Client or Customer
  • The Ten Keys To Delivering A Great Presentation.
  • What you really need to know about pricing your products!!
  • The True Purpose of Your Marketing System.
  • Get your customers to come back more often!
  • Accelerated Discontentment , Why you should care.
  • Creating a market dominating position.
  • Business habits that inhibiting business growth
  • Why nearly all small businesses fail at pricing.
  • Four reasons why people don’t buy your stuff

Productivity

  • The Art of Delegation.
  • “You Can’t Fix a Disorganised Client — But You Can Stop Them Derailing You”
  • Are We There Yet?
  • Are you lazy when it comes to decision making?
  • No Business Systems..Are You Operating By Chance?
  • Why saying NO will help you in building a better business!
  • We make 35,000 decisions a day, how many are good?
  • How business sabotage can ruin your life and what to do about it.
  • The 1440 that we all have…Spend it like a ‘Billionaire’
  • Great entrepreneurs don’t add overhead, they build systems
  • 10 Easy ways to increase your productivity.
  • Eat That Frog. (Book Summary) Brian Tracy. Productivity.
  • 21 Productivity Tips from Robin Sharma. Productivity expert.
  • Procrastination the disease of the poor!

Networking

  • The 7 Deadly Sins of Business Networking: Avoid These Pitfalls
  • Why you still need to be able to deliver a great Elevator Pitch
  • How to make Business Networking work for you.
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