By Dave Hickey Every business should have a business plan – because a vision without a plan is just a dream! Unfortunately, despite the fact that many of the underlying businesses are viable, the vast majority of plans are hardly worth the paper they’re printed on. Most “bad” business plans share one or more of […]
TOP 10 BUSINESS PLAN MISTAKES – (1 TO 5) Read More »
By Dave Hickey Recently someone asked me why she needed a business plan if she was getting all the funding she needed from friends and relatives. It appeared to me as if she was thinking of a business plan as just a fund-raising tool. In fact, a business plan is much more than that: It’s
STOP WISHING FOR SUCCESS: START PLANNING FOR IT Read More »
By Dave Hickey This is part of a piece I wrote almost two years ago about ‘staying on top of the numbers’. Too much of it is still relevant. In Ireland we’re great at keeping score. Whether it’s in sport, socially (whose round is it?) or in family life (whose turn to do the dishes?).
KEEPING SCORE IS JUST AS IMPORTANT IN BUSINESS AS IN SPORT Read More »
