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Sunday Independent May 21^st 2011

Entrepreneurs are the key to recovery

Never mind the Government, we can always go out and make our own jobs and better life, suggests Blaise Brosnan

A Kerryman has a lot to do with the way the world is today. Richard Cantillon ofBallyheigueCastlecame up with the concept of entrepreneurialism about 300 years ago. He lived in north Kerry at the turn of the 17th Century and from a young age he roamed between there and his uncle’s home ...

 Think about the information you need in order to successfully run your business.

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Then organise your MIS from this base. This will eliminate many layers of communication. 

The owner-manager is the conductor, with the performance of the critical issues being reported directly to him / her. 

All must be performing the same conductors score (Mission Statement).

Were you pleased with what your business accomplished in 2011?

• Was it a successful year?
• How do you know?
• What did you set out to achieve?
• What were your results against these targets?
• Did your business slowly start to see an increase in revenue and profit compared to the previous few years?
• How did you business compare to other businesses in your industry?
• What improvements did you see within your business?
• Was your company simply surviving or was it showing signs of future thriving?
• List your evidence ...
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None of us get through life problem free. We all have both our range of problems and opportunities. In order to improve your chances of tacking either, it can be useful to seek outside help. This outside supposed pragmatic facilitation is to help you to clarify the issue(s) and surface some possibilities at developing and implementing appropriate solutions.

As an outside facilitator one has to be very careful that you are not seeing your client’s issues through your own lifes influenced experiences, ...

Businesses like plants in the field; are governed by the “survival of the fittest”. Businesses survive in the longer-term if they serve the needs of their constituents effectively and efficiently at prices sufficient to cover the cost incurred in producing / delivering the product / service plus an adequate surplus to justify the investment. As business people you must always be focused in and challenging the ROI. As you can see from this ROI equation, you have to make the ...

I am continuing to publish some of the nuggets of wisdom from my latest book titled Jack–business lessons from life, Life lessons from business.

Nugget number (2)—It’s not always the big things that count. It’s often the little things.

Identify the “little things” which held you back in 2011 and put an Action Plan in place immediately to “kill” them off and face into 2012 with some wind to your back.

Blaise.

Simple lesson on Kerry economics.

We Kerry people are confident enough to admit that we don’t understand complicated “angle” on issues, which others pretend they understand. Our view is if you cannot understand it, then how can you use it to your advantage? With our back to the sea, we need all the advantage we can get.

I will try to explain in simple Kerry English what all these economic fundamentals are, so that you too can benefit even if ...

 Managing a small business is more difficult than managing a large business. 

Owner managers generally start their own businesses because they are good at something and believe they can build a successful commercial business off this base. Often they are good at the vocational aspect of the business, but are virgins in others areas such as the energising of their commercial model. Just because you are a skilled operative doesn’t necessarily equip you to becoming a successful ...

Practical approach to learning.

1. People learn by linking new information or ideas to what they already know.
2. People learn by visioning “patterns and linkages that are real in their own minds. The picture in ones own mind, represents the roadmap to guide forward decisions and movements.
3. People have different capacities for learning. Some can assimilate many “angles” simultaneously, while others have to rationalise the points in logical “one on one” order.
4. The more of our five senses we use to accumulate information, ...
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Blaise was guest speaker (along with Miriam O Callaghan and others) at the graduation cermony for Forward Steps held in Mount Wolseley in Tullow on June 14th.

Blaise use the story of his current book titled Jack to get across his nuggets of wisdom to the large gathering. He suggested that they should take just a couple of the 198 nuggets of wisdom from the book and apply them to their own lives.